Category: Quick Cryptic

Thought this was a fine QC offering from Rongo, with a good mix of some “entry level” clues and some trickier stuff (11ac in particular required a bit of working out). All in all, very … Read more “Quick Cryptic 462 by Rongo”

Having spent an enjoyable hour blogging the QC from the Time site, I find that it was yesterday’s. So the IT folk at the Times have given me the extra pleasure of doing a second … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 461 by Orpheus”

I fook a while to get properly going on this one. I bunged in 7ac immediatly but none of the adjoining answers sprang to mind so I had to find another foothold and lost time … Read more “Quick Cryptic 460 by Flamande”

Thank you to Pip for coming to the rescue last week. I should now be up and running for the foreseeable.A good workout this week, with just a couple of clues causing a bit of … Read more “Quick Cryptic 459 by Oran”

Access is here, if not through the usual channels: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/puzzles/crossword/20151210/11393/ 10 minutes for this one. In a hurry, so here goes. Across 1 PAINFULLY – PA (dad), IN (at home), FULLY (completely). Def: with some … Read more “Quick Cryptic 458 by Teazel”

A proper laugh-out-load crossword with many of those penny dropping moments. Easily my favourite for some time. No obscure vocabulary, but plenty of deceptive wordplay and wit. Thank you, Grumpy. Due to my not being … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 457 by Grumpy”

At the recent anniversary do I highly enjoyed the company of a lot of 12acs and 13dns but must have missed out on the limerick session. To make up: This blogger who quite likes a … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 456 by Izetti”

A puzzle that provided a couple of moments of amusement without proving overly taxing, which is generally how I like them. Perhaps only the card game is not in everyone’s vocabulary, but the wordplay for … Read more “Quick Cryptic 455 by Mara”

I’m standing in for Emma today as we had some IT issues when (not) finding the puzzle in time for her to blog; hopefully all will be good for next Friday. On my PC The … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 454 by Joker”

I’m not sure if our esteemed Thursday blogger is available for duty today but if there’s no news by 1:30 I shall post an emergency blog. I have disabled comments on this thread for the … Read more “Quick Cryptic 453 by Hurley”