Category: Quick Cryptic

15 minutes for me so medium/hard. I got a lot of clues from the definitions (and worked the word play out later which proved to be quite an enjoyable mental tussle) but I have some … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 107 by Pedro”

The link from the Times site seems to be working – hopefully not famous last words. As a computer programmer in my previous life, it always felt like a defeat to use the mouse instead … Read more “Quick Cryptic 106 by Tracy”

William was unable to login to LJ this morning, so emailed it to me to post. Sorry, only just saw the email so it’s much later than intended. NB I took the liberty of editing … Read more “Quick Cryptic 105 by Felix (on behalf of william_j_s)”

The button seems to be okay, but in case of difficulty here’s the url: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140731/227/ I’m standing in for Macavity today.  17 minutes for this one. I’ve given up trying to predict the level of … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No. 104 by Mara”

Greetings from Paris, where Mrs. Novice and I are currently holidaying in a charming appartment in the heart of the Marais. The holiday mood (coupled with a significant intake of Cotes du Rhone) probably impacted … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 103 by Izetti”

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”