Category: Quick Cryptic

Gor blimey. Having consistently finished the quickie in under 5 min all week, it comes to my blog day and I make a right meal of it. 14 minutes, minus the 45s it takes to … Read more “Quick Cryptic 874 by Pedro”

Twelve minutes to complete, and then a couple of minutes scratching my head over the parsing of 14A.  I’m not entirely satisfied even now, so maybe a chance for someone to ILLUMINE the setter’s thinking.  … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 873 by Joker”

One at the easier end of the spectrum today, I thought, although solvers who don’t have a nodding acquaintance with Middle Eastern currencies may have had to trust to definition and cross checkers at 8ac. … Read more “Quick Cryptic 872 by Flamande”

Another Corelli, another 15 minutes of entertainment – finished, finally, at 20ac with a far from obvious hidden clue.I had a double take on the parsing at 6dn and a triple take on whatever was … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 871 by Corelli”

I neeeded 11 minutes to complete the grid parsing as I went, so missed my target by 1 minute. There are a few words here that may only be easy if the solver has met … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 870 by Teazel”

Morning all.  No surprises from Hawthorn today, all the answers are well-known words or expressions, and I would imagine everyone’s heard of the movie. That doesn’t guarantee that it’s easy of course, you still have … Read more “Quick Cryptic 869 by Hawthorn”

A gentle enough offering from Orpheus today, if my time of seven-and-a-half minutes is anything to go by. One wrong, of course, but I’d say the “Unlucky!” sign was quite accurate on this occasion (as … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 868 by Orpheus”

I thought this was going to be a much more light and breezy puzzle than it turned out to be. The first few clues in the NW gave the impression of a break from the … Read more “Quick Cryptic 867 by Hurley”

12 minutes – the final two on 8dn due to the surface – it could be said that I couldn’t change out of clothing as nothing suited me.Lots of other good clues (18dn and 20dn … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 866 by Mara”

An enjoyable offering from Izetti today, with a raft of good surfaces and no words dredged up from the lesser visited reaches of the dictionary (though I’m not entirely sure what’s going on in 4D). … Read more “Quick Cryptic 865 by Izetti”