Category: Quick Cryptic

Must admit I’ve pretty much given up on trying to predict the degree of difficulty of the Quickies, having been proven to have been out of step with the consensus view on many occasions of … Read more “Tmes Quick Cryptic 282 by Des”

A pleasant offering which took 9 minutes – so, on the easy side but not without interest including the odd bird, a romancer, people from Media (not journalists this time) and some nautical ruminations. Definitions … Read more “Quick Crtyptic No 281 by Izetti”

9 minutes. I think most solvers will find this one fairly straightforward apart from a reference to a somewhat obscure 15th century poet, a French department and a crossword favourite that some newbies may not … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 280 by Orpheus”

I thought this was a bit harder than the usual quickie, with one or two clues fit for the main puzzle, although now I come to write the explanations it all seems easy enough except … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 279 by Mara”

Hello all Thanks to everyone for covering for me for the past few weeks. OU Residential School and hospital appts have hijacked my Thursdays. Now fitted with my hearing aids once more, I can now … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 278 by Grumpy – Double (definition) Trouble”

Apologies for the delay in posting – with little hope of finding this puzzle in advance, Murphy’s law dictates that something will crop up in the morning. I found this fairly straightforward, except for two … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 277 by Joker”

I didn’t record a time for this one but it must have been on the long side. A tricky offering by Tracy today but a very enjoyable one. Some excellent clues which required a deal … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 276 by Tracy”

This was a straightforward puzzle with only a couple of non-standard bits of vocab, specifically 1A and 19A. There are plenty of charades in the clues – a charade is where the answer is built … Read more “Quick Cryptic 275 by Hurley”

In a year of blogging quickies I haven’t come across “Ferbot” before, he or she sounds like an anagram on “Pointless” or a cuddly automaton, who knows. Another coded alias for one of our regular … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 274 by Ferbot – musical mystery tour”

It looks like the scheduled blogger has not been able to produce a blog today so here’s a quick one. Some of the surfaces in this were great, in particular 2D and 11D. 13A and … Read more “Quick Cryptic 273 by Joker”