Category: Quick Cryptic

Not sure how this happened but messages have been delayed via livejournal and I didn’t receive macavity123’s message that he was doing the blog. I am leaving the comments posted below but for the blog … Read more “Please see Quick Cryptic blog above.”

Thanks to Orpheus for an enjoyable puzzle which I thought was towards the easier end of the spectrum, whilst still posing a few knotty problems to unravel. One (at least for me) obscure bit of … Read more “Quick Cryptic 362 by Orpheus”

An unusually unsymmetrical A diagonally symmetrical (thanks joecasey) grid from Hurley – possibly adjusted to fit in four long answers which may hold the key to how long this takes to solve. Two and a … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 361 by Hurley”

This is the first of Izetti’s puzzles to fall on my watch for nearly a year and I found it quite tricky to get started on, but once I had struggled to put in a … Read more “Quick Cryptic 360 by Izetti”

I managed this among the holiday chaos, in ten minutes or so. It’s a prime example of the setters art, with plenty of concise clues, not as exceptional or witty as Wednesday’s No L special … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 359 by Teazel”

As there’s no sign of today’s blog and it’s getting late, I am preparing an emergency version and will post it at 3:00 PM unless it has appeared by then or I’ve heard from the … Read more “Quick Cryptic 358 by Tracy”

Standing in for william_j_s who has gone on a spur of the moment holiday – lucky man! He has, on the other hand, missed a tasty treat as Noel has dished us up a near-double … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 357 by Noel”

Not sure I was operating on all cylinders and struggled somewhat – even so I would class this as hard. Most anagrams have additional parts inserted, some vocabulary is unusual and on top of all … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 356 by Mara”

A slightly harder than average offering from Dazzler today, I would say, with the slang at 7D having the potential to trip people up – at least if it wasn’t remembered from Quicky 61 in … Read more “Quick Cryptic 355 by Dazzler”

Maybe because I’m on holiday with little or no time away from the young ones, I found this a mite trickier than the usual Friday puzzle. In retrospect there’s nothing unfair or obscure, but Mr … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 354 by Hurley”