Category: Quick Cryptic

After all the access problems yesterday here’s today’s puzzle: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140729/225/It feels like a medium one to me with many easy clues and generally pretty get-able – my time being 12ish minutes. Apart from an internal … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 102 by Flamande”

As we might have expected, the button to today’s puzzle is broken and indeed our friends at SNAFU Central have excelled themselves by linking it back to puzzle #5 as published in March. Here’s the … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 101 by Hurley”

So here we are 20 weeks on and a century of quickies. They’re still some way short of the usual difficulty of the main cryptic, of course, there are no obscure words for the solutions … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 100 by Joker”

Hi everyone Apologies for the late posting. Trip to doctor’s just to check things ok for my holiday tomorrow held me up. Quite a tricky puzzle from Corelli today, certainly at the harder end of … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 99 by Corelli”

Sorry for delay. I arrived at the polyclinique for my 6 monthly going-slowly-blind check-up, to find the space now occupied by a ‘gynaecologiste’, which was not of much use to me. Eventually I discoverd the … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 98 by Rongo”

A much more gentle offering than last Tuesday’s although I got a bit held up in SW. Some nice clues and a couple of answers maybe not familiar to all. Not much more to add … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 97 by Grumpy”

As we begin the week that will see the 100th Quick Cryptic, it is mind-boggling that simply making the puzzle available to punters is proving such an IT conundrum (in other technology news, today marks … Read more “Quick Cryptic 96 by Orpheus”

I found this pretty meaty and I didn’t manage to finish it on my commute (my daily aim) despite the continuing signalling faults. I need help for 3dn from anyone who understands the wordplay! 13ac … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 95 by Mara”

The link on the Times site is broken yet again so here is the correct url for those trying to access today’s Quickie: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140717/214/ Sorry this won’t be a very expansive blog as I’m standing … Read more “Quick Cryptic 94 by Tracy”

Good puzzle, I thought, so thanks to Flamande. Not too tricky, but some sticky moments along the way that had me scratching my head for a while. The hardest bit was finding the damned thing! … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 93 by Flamande”