Category: Quick Cryptic

Because of the broken link at the Times I’ve put up today’s Quickie #31 here:http://jackkt.livejournal.com/ This one took me 11 minutes so was possibly at the easier end of the spectrum for a Quickie, but … Read more “Quick Cryptic 31 set by Dazzler”

To me this seemed a lot easier than some of the other recent QCs, to the point where some answers are hardly cryptic at all. Nevertheless there is a good mixture of clueing methods for … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No. 30 by Orpheus”

Hello everyone. Time: 14 minutes Another enjoyable solve today. I probably took a little longer than I should have done. Nicely written clues with a couple of genuinely classy ones, for example 3 and 5 … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 29 by Myles”

Apologies for the brevity of this blog- am very rushed today. Not the easiest quick cryptic I thought, I struggled a bit to blog it, hopefully my explanations are clear. Worth trying the Times Crossword … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 28 by Joker”

Some good clues here so I quite enjoyed myself. This doesn’t seem like a Quick breeze as there’s good surfaces and quite a lot of play in the word play. I usually struggle with flowers … Read more “Quick Cryptic no 27 by Flamande”

As at time of writing, the Quick Cryptic link from the Times site is incorrect – you can access it via http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140414/127/ Looking at other Quicky blog posts, it seems as though people are warming … Read more “Quick Cryptic 26 by Grumpy”

After finding last week’s crossword (number 20) via the timesonline link, at a little past midnight this morning, I did the old switcheroo with the dates, and finished Rongo’s puzzle in 34 minutes. Good fun, … Read more “Quick Cryptic 25 by Rongo”

Morning all. Time: 13 minutes Thought this was a bit on the tricky side, with a couple of clues that wouldn’t have been out of place in a 15 x 15 puzzle. Across 1 JACKAL … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 24 by Felix”

I thought this was a good Quickie with a mix of some relatively straightforward clues to give a way in, and some trickier ones that were quite challenging. One piece of obscure (at least to … Read more “Quick Cryptic 23 by Hurley”

At time of posting, the Times online link was broken.  I presume the automated process still requires attention but one would think they would have got their act together by now.  I got access to … Read more “Quick Cryptic 22 by Izetti”