Category: Quick Cryptic

Cricket, nudity and a bit of twitching – a Somerset lad’s big day out! Really enjoyed this offering: loads of wit and sparkle, and many thanks to our setter Teazel. Plenty of jokey double and … Read more “Quick Cryptic 153 by Teazel”

Another enjoyable workout (in 10 minutes). The maze-maker and retreat may be unfamiliar to some but one joy of cryptic crosswords is working out an answer you may not have heard of and learning something … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 152 by Izetti”

12 minutes for this mostly excellent puzzle which is not all easy by any standards. I noticed quite a few adverse comments about the difficulty of some puzzles last week – Friday’s in particular – … Read more “Quick Cryptic 151 by Joker”

Here I am again, deputising for Pip Kirby. I found this quite hard! I reckon it took me nine or ten minutes, and there is hardly a clue here that is not up to full … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 150, by Oran”

[Not sure what’s happening about the Quickie today but I’m trying to find out if emergency cover is needed. I have a blog prepared and ready should the need arise.] Okay, I’ve not been able … Read more “Quick Cryptic 149 by Mara”

Something of a departure for me, as I don’t normally complete or blog the quick cryptics, but I am deputising this week for Pip Kirby.I found this crossword pretty straightforward, with the exception of 6dn, … Read more “Quick Cryptic 148 by Orpheus”

A very fine crossword, in my opinion. Clever clues where the word play has relevance to the definition and the occasional mental gymnastics needed for some word play.Some went in really quickly and some – … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 147 by Tracy”

The puzzle is available at http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140929/278/ I think this will be considered at the easier end of the Quicky spectrum, with perhaps only the general knowledge required in 11A, 16A, and 6D having the potential … Read more “Quick Cryptic 146 by Flamande”

A bit of Friday fun, which took me much longer to blog than to solve. Many of the surface meanings are neat and misleading, but not so devious as to throw us off the scent … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 145 by Rongo”

Here’s the link to this puzzle at the Times if anyone needs it: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140925/276/ A very enjoyable puzzle by Izetti that delayed me for 18 minutes. There’s nothing obscure or out of the ordinary though … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 144 by Izetti”