Category: Quick Cryptic

Following Rob’s departure from his alternate Friday slot I am covering for one week until Galspray takes on all Friday QCs on his return from Japan. We have a rather unusual grid today in which … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 774 by Teazel”

Good puzzle with some nice surfaces.  I don’t have an accurate time, as I got up at 3:00 am to get this done before heading north on the M1, and wasn’t awake enough to remember … Read more “Quick cryptic No 773 by Orpheus”

I found this one fairly straightforward – most of it wrapped up in the time it took me to eat a sausage roll in a car park whilst en route to a funeral – with … Read more “Quick Cryptic 772 by Hurley”

I’m really pleased to have been on blog duty for this one. Solving took 8 minutes (so a good quick QC) but compiling the blog allowed me to fully relish some of the clues. I’d … Read more “Quick Cryptic 771 by Flamande”

I just came in under the wire with a few seconds to spare to meet my 10 minute target. The final 2 minutes had been spent on 16dn – more on that later – and … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 770 by Tracy”

Morning all.  A brief and possibly mistake-ridden blog today.  I’m travelling with my family in Japan (wonderful place, by the way), and it’s hard to find some quiet time to put the blog together.  Was … Read more “Quick Cryptic 769 by Marty”

Very enjoyable, as always, from Izetti. There was a bit of an animal theme. The grid presented a couple of other nice ideas as well – for those adorned with excessive levels of outsize jewellery, … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 768 by Izetti”

Mine was a fairly uninspiring performance in solving what was a light and breezy puzzle. Nothing in particular held me up, just not in the groove, I suspect. I had to wait until blogging to … Read more “Quick Cryptic 767 by Mara”

Some unusual vocabulary/use of terms to be found in some definitions (11ac, 12dn, 13ac and 20ac) but all clued so that they couldn’t really be anything else. These gave me the additional pleasure of diving … Read more “Quick Cryptic 766 by Orpheus”

I thought this puzzle was on the easier side, with no show-stoppingly obscure words or convoluted parsings. The grid for this one has good Nina potential with the unchecked letters in the leftmost and rightmost … Read more “Quick Cryptic 765 by Teazel”