Category: Quick Cryptic

Are Anitas neater? And are you a lover of the lieder?A good offering for Friday from Tracy, which sparked off many random thoughts, only a few fit to mention. About average for me, am getting … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 745 by Tracy Friday, 27 January 2017”

An enjoyable offering by Hurley, which took me 13 minutes to complete, although it isn’t all satisfactorily parsed as you will see below.  There is a nice mixture of cryptic devices, including several anagrams, a … Read more “Quick cryptic No 753 by Hurley”

It’s been a fair while since I’ve had an Izetti offering cropping up on my QC blogging day and I must admit that when they do, I always anticipate a serious grapple (albeit with very … Read more “QC 752 by Izetti”

I am reliably informed (as always by jacckt) that our setting duo, having premiered a long time ago, now grace the stage with their second QC. Quite a performance it is too – some very … Read more “Quick Cryptic 751 by Bob and Margaret”

Quite remarkably for me I solved this in 5 minutes – my fastest time achieved only once before, 440 puzzles ago, back in May 2015. I’ve always promised myself that if I find I am … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 750 by Orpheus”

Morning all.  This offering from Teazel took me nine and a half minutes to complete.  That means either it was quite tough or I was being a bit thick, so I’ll be interested to hear … Read more “Quick Cryptic 749 by Teazel”

A bit north of tipsy when doing this, I gave up after 16 minutes. In retrospect, I would have been a while getting 12d, but I really should have got 13ac without… well, it’s not … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 748 by Joker”

I would certainly have found this much harder were it not for the plentitude of double definitions, multi-word answers and anagrams (look out for the unusual indicator at 8dn) that helped me get a start … Read more “Quick Cryptic 747 by Mara”

Longer to solve than yesterday’s at 11.11 as there were plenty of good clues to get the teeth into. The SW became my final tussle – I wasn’t sure of 15dn but the cluing allowed … Read more “Quick Cryptic 746 by Hurley”

This is the first time that Flamande has cropped up in my Monday slot, holiday swaps notwithstanding, which is a pleasant surprise given that I’ve been a fan of his puzzles in other places for … Read more “Quick Cryptic 745 by Flamande”