Category: Quick Cryptic

Another Friday struggle for me, falling outside the magical (?) 11-minute barrier by one second.  An enjoyable challenge as usual though. Breadman seemed to dip into the “extended” set of Crossword standards for this one, … Read more “Quick Cryptic 854 by (Sir Donald) Breadman”

A rushed blog today, I’m afraid, due to lack of time and pressure of work, and other circumstances outwith my control.  This inevitably means that there will be a mistake somewhere in what follows, for … Read more “Quick cryptic No 853 by Hawthorn”

Last time I was on blogging duty for a QC I opined that it was fairly straightforward, only to find that most of you put it at the trickier end of the spectrum. And the … Read more “Quick Cryptic 852 by Orpheus”

I’m standing in for Chris today as he is on his hols. This one took me 9 minutes. As usual definitions are underlined in bold italics, {deletions are in curly brackets} and [anagrinds, containment, reversal … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 851 by Joker”

Considering that I have been blogging QCs since #1 in March 2014 and Izetti is one of the original regular setters, he has appeared on my scheduled blogging day on remarkably few occasions – indeed … Read more “Quick Cryptic 850 by Izetti”

Just over five minutes to solve this Teazel teaser, not bad for a Friday.  I’m a bit pressed for time today, so I’ll post the parsing of the clues now and possibly add some observations … Read more “Quick Cryptic 849 by Teazel”

A quick, and possibly unreliable, search shows this to be only Juno’s fourth puzzle – the previous one being QC 430, all the way back in November 2015. On that occasion, blogged by Jack, there … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 848 by Juno”

Solved in spare moments and blogged in a hurry, hence the later-than-usual post, so it’s even more difficult for me to judge its difficulty. I thought I was getting bored of all the anagram practice, … Read more “Quick Cryptic 847 by Pedro”

An interruption means I only have a rough estimate of time at 16 minutes so this seemed a bit of a work out. Plenty of interesting word play to unravel and two long anagrams at … Read more “Quick Cryptic 846 by Hurley”

A crossword of average difficulty from Mara today, with perhaps more double definitions than we’re used to seeing. Double definitions can either fill you with delight at the prospect of getting two bites at the … Read more “Quick Cryptic 845 by Mara”