Category: Quick Cryptic

An elegant QC from Izetti that brings into play a number of old favourites from Crosswordland (see, guy, bent etc.) and provides a broad range of clue types, making this an ideal puzzle for those … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 442 by Izetti”

A very good QC IMHO with a good level of clues. Nothing at the extreme ends of easy or hard but a good work through. The French city, rascal and carthorse may not be familiar … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 441 by Orpheus”

At 8 minutes I found this one quite straightforward with no unknown words or meanings. The wordplay didn’t seem very complicated either, but we shall see what others think… Definitions are underlined. Deletions are in … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 440 by Rongo”

This one felt a little trickier to get going on than recent Friday quickies, but at least I wasn’t left crunching through the alphabet this week. A version of an old chestnut at 20a, and … Read more “Quick Cryptic 439 by Mara”

It’s nearly 1PM and there’s no sign of the Quickie. If there’s no news of it by 1:30 I shall post an emergency blog. I have disabled comments so if it appears in the meantime … Read more “Quick Cryptic 438 by Hurley”

Well, nowhere near as difficult as yesterday’s but Tracy had me stumbling over several clues. Unknowns (golf clubs, plants) aside, even the charades, where all I had to do was put words and synonyms in … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 437 by Tracy”

Let me know if anyone was on Teazel’s wavelength today – because I was a long way from it. Possibly my own fault as I’ve been walking around Brisbane all day and have an hour … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 436 by Teazel”

I thought this puzzle contained a good selection of surface readings, with the difficulty level on the easy side. The crossword can be found here if the usual channels are unavailable: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20151109/10789/ Definitions are underlined. … Read more “Quick Cryptic 435 by Flamande”

Another Friday quickie which left me going through the alphabet to get the last one after everything else had gone in fairly easily. Even after deciding that it had to be ATOM, it took a … Read more “Quick Cryptic 434 by Joker”

Morning all Thanks to jacktt for stepping last week in at the last minute when I was longer at the hospital than I should have been. Back today with Grumpy and a thoroughly enjoyable puzzle … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 433 by Grumpy – Quote Unquote….”