Category: Quick Cryptic

As usual on a Monday the puzzle on the Times button is a week out of date so here’s the link to today’s for those unable to find it by other means: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140505/147/ . Regulars … Read more “Times Quickie 41 set by Hurley”

I seem to be meeting Grumpy more often than not on Fridays now. This one seems to be continuing the trend of increasing difficulty for the Quickies, I hope the debutantes are keeping up!It’s a … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 40 by Grumpy”

Hello everyone. Time taken: medium It’s that time of the week again and we have a lovely puzzle today which was a pleasure to solve. Think I can work out the identity of our setter … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic Number 39 by Mara”

I’ve blogged an Orpheus crossword before, and this one was pretty similar in style. Perhaps on the easier side, but some will be grateful for that after yesterday’s tricky offering. Nice clueing with the important … Read more “Quick Cryptic 38 by Orpheus”

I think this is an excellent crossword – on the harder side of usual (25 minutes for me including the parsing). There is so much play in the word play that I’ve taken the explanations … Read more “Quick Cryptic no. 37 by Marty”

The current link on the Times site is pointing towards last Monday’s puzzle – the correct link should be to: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140428/141/ The link on the site is now correct. This is Joker’s fourth QC offering, … Read more “Quick Cryptic 36 by Joker”

Without the grid-width 1ac, and with only 3 of the 6 first down clues, I found this a bit of challenge to get into. And had a lot of fun as a consequence! Very satisfied … Read more “Quick Cryptic 35 by Oran”

Hi everyone. I’m sorry for being late on parade today. Had an early appointment at the hospital that overran because of IT problems. Time taken was a little over 12 minutes. A nice pleasant solve … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 34 by Teazel”

Greetings from New Caledonia, where Mrs. Novice (there’s some scope for wordplay in there somewhere) and I are currently holidaying. A delightful piece of France in the South Pacific, here you can sit under a … Read more “Quick Cryptic 33 by Flamande”

Little to say about this puzzle. I seemed to rattle through it reasonably quickly and didn’t get a kick out of any of the solutions which is most unusual. Definition parts of clues underlined where … Read more “Quick Cryptic 32 Hurley”