Category: Quick Cryptic

I think this one will prove reasonably straightforward, but you never know… Quite a few anagrams today, which give you a good way into the puzzle if you are struggling to make headway. Some neat … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 272 by Mara”

Sadly unable to prepare this yesterday due to numbering changes, no time today. Clues broken up briefly below. Definitions underlined, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. Across 1 Snooty-sounding lifestyle familiar to gardeners? (12) &nbsp &nbspHORTICULTURE – … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 271 by Orpheus”

I don’t think there’s much to frighten the horses in this one, but we’ll see. It took me 8 minutes with the last minute spent on 14dn alone whilst I worked out what was going … Read more “Quick Cryptic 270 by Flamande”

Nothing too obscure here but plenty of practice at unravelling cryptic clues with relatively obvious definitions to help you along. Ten minutes for me. I can’t think of anything else useful to add. Across 1 … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 269 by Teazel”

It’s 2:30PM UK time so I’m guessing that today’s scheduled blogger is indisposed – hopefully nothing serious. Here’s a quick blog for what wasn’t a difficult puzzle with only maybe 18A not common vocabulary. The usual … Read more “Quick Cryptic 268 by Izetti”

Despite being quite out of practice, I found this fairly easy to get into. The left hand side of the grid was a bit slower to click, with 1dn and 2dn eluding me the longest. … Read more “Quick Cryptic 267 by Tracy”

Even if I hadn’t been doing this one in the same room as a physio session for a freestyle skier and loud rock music, it would not have been easy – although maybe not as … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 266 by Corelli”

The Quicky has been going for just over a year now and, though it’s hard to know how many people have been attracted to the crossword world because of it, we’ve definitely seen a dozen … Read more “Quick Cryptic 265 by Joker”

At first read, quite a few of these clues’ answers are not obvious, but once the easier and longer ones are in place, the checking letters help a lot; it took me ten or eleven … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 264 by Mara – one thing leads to another”

Late in the day I noticed the blog wasn’t up – so, hoping I’m not getting in anyone’s way, here’s a last minute substitute effort – necessarily brief. Fortunately this was not too taxing (8 … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 263 by Rongo”