Category: Quick Cryptic

Short and sharp today. My new internet advertising campaign has been bringing me so many new clients that my feet are not really spending much time in contact with the ground at present, and the … Read more “QC 1135 by Hurley”

Decent rattle through today, which was welcome after recent blogging days. Nothing too tricksy, no Ninas. Took far too long to spot the parsing of 17ac so I suppose that’s my CoD. 6 minutes. Across … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1134 by Izetti”

Well this felt different!  In the only previous blog I did for an Oran puzzle, I was somewhat smug about completing it in record time.  Perhaps this is Oran’s revenge? I took all of 18 … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1133 by Oran”

A fine puzzle, but a ghastly solve — the perfect storm of difficulty and distraction: scrawling in answers to a very (~30%) UK-centric puzzle and simultaneously trying to prevent my two-year-old from burning the house … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1132 by Teazel”

This initially seemed hard but I got underway quite quickly with 1dn (despite not being familiar with the university), got used to what seemed to me to be an unusual amount of verbiage in the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1131 by Joker”

This puzzle took me 8 minutes so I’d say it’s at the easier end of the spectrum, but it still has a few trickier clues that may stretch the brain a little more. As usual … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1130 by Flamande”

Hello fellow QC fans. Here we a have a juicy offering from Pedro that is full of bear-traps and, as you will see, I fell into just about all of them. Some sneaky definitions and … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1129 by Pedro”

A lovely puzzle today from Tracy, with lots of simple, natural disguises – the anagram indicator at 9ac and the “country retreat” at 12ac are two I see without having to scroll too far down. … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 1128 by Tracy”

The second from Hurley in a row for my blogging day, and another well-pitched crossword – streching but not demoralising (I’m keeping my finger’s crossed you agree!). Plenty of anagrams and biffables to get some … Read more “Quick Cryptic 1127 by Hurley”

I”m not sure what’s gone wrong but Chris posted another blog for yesterday’s puzzle (1125 by Orpheus) instead of today’s. He said in his intro that he is on a walking holiday and short of … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 1126 by Hawthorn”