Category: Quick Cryptic

A warm welcome to yet more new setters – this time Bob and Margaret, the cartoon couple! And a fine debut, if I may say – thanks for an elegant puzzle with a slightly quirky, … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 402 by Bob and Margaret”

No setter’s name online as I post this. I found this a tough but fair Quickie until we get to 6dn which caused me to read jackkt’s post of yesterday on the original aim of … Read more “Quick Cryptic no 401 by Breadman”

This being Quick Cryptic number 400 and with a new setter on duty I thought we might be in for a theme or a Nina to mark the occasion, but it appears to be just … Read more “Quick Cryptic 400 by Bart”

Maybe I was not thinking clearly, but this ‘quickie’ took me longer (12 minutes) than last Monday’s proper Times Cryptic; not least because I’d made a screen capture and printed it out such that the … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 399 by Mara – a tricky quickie”

Hello everyone Apologies for being AWOL for a couple of weeks, a scheduled holiday turned into other things and of course, I forgot to tell Headmaster so I have duly completed my lines and removed … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 398 by Izetti”

Following the quick entry of 6dn (in this unusual grid) there were no hold-ups until my last one in – 7dn. Fairly straightforward then, but entertaining. I especially liked the translation from possession (in the … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 397 by Rongo”

A medium difficulty (some will zoom through, of course) and amusing crossword which held me up in the bottom half more than the top. Double and cryptic definitions abound in this highly satisfactory quick cryptic. … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 396 by Teazel”

A few unusual words in this one that may cause problems for those who aren’t yet grizzled crossword veterans. I’m talking about 23A and 1D in particular. As such, I would put this at the … Read more “Quick Cryptic 395 by Joker”

Easier, I think, than the last couple of Fridays I’ve covered; a 5 minute write-in, with only two anagrams and one hidden word clue to chew on. A fair test for cryptic solvers on the … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 394 by Orpheus”

[Posted at 11:55:  As  noon approaches I’m not sure if today’s Quickie is covered. If there’s no news of it by 1:00 I shall post an emergency blog] Posted at 13:18 9  minutes for this … Read more “Quick Cryptic 393 by Hurley”