Category: Quick Cryptic

A straightforward and pleasant puzzle from Vista. No obscurities (except possibly one of the two definitions in 22a) and nothing too tricksy. Blog is a bit brief due to time constraints, but please ask if … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 452 by Vista”

An enjoyable puzzle with some twists and turns in the wordplay and the occasional less than usual word. I was going well and heading for a 10 minute solve until I got back up to … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 451 by Pedro”

I had to hop around the grid quite a lot whilst solving this one to keep up momentum as I needed checkers to jog my brain into action, however I completed the puzzle in 10 … Read more “Quick Cryptic 450 by Tracy”

A mostly straightforward solve this week. I thought 8 across a clever clue, first in its misdirecting surface reading and then in causing me to try think of words meaning accommodate to write backwards. 1 … Read more “Quick Crossword 449 by Orpheus”

I’m not sure if our esteemed Thursday blogger is around to cover the puzzle today. He may be delayed at a hospital appointment. If nothing has appeared by 1:30 I shall put up an emergency … Read more “Quick Cryptic 448 by Corelli”

A nice, straightforward crossword. Even including some unknown references (as the spy and the poet were to me) it should not take so long to solve that fun gives way to inconvenience. Definitions underlined. 1 … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 447 by Flamande”

A good romp today with Mara – a couple, of long anagrams which always hold me up – but not as long as the LOI intersection of 5dn and 15ac. Some very enjoyable clues (COD … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 446 by Mara”

An odd grid, with two clues (11A and 18A) that didn’t actually need to be solved because their solutions could be completely filled in via their crossing answers, which always feels like a bit of … Read more “Quick Cryptic 445 by Hurley”

Rather too many ‘well, it must be that’, write it in and ask questions later, clues for me this week! All seemed fair, though in the calmness of later analysis, but I’d never heard of … Read more “Quick Cryptic 444 by Teazel”

Morning all Firstly, thanks to jackkt for covering last Thursday. Having moved house recently I have hospital appointments under a new regime and where I had things off pat with my former hospital, the new … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 443 by Joker – A Game of Two Halves”