Category: Quick Cryptic

Solving time: Easier end of scale Greetings everyone. Standing in today after a late-night email from the boss! A nice straight forward quickie from Orpheus that should provide a pleasant solve for most new solvers. … Read more “Quick Cryptic No 77 by Orpheus”

The puzzle can be found here: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140623/183/ This is Izetti’s sixth Quick offering, I think, and has all the smoothness experienced solvers will know from his many guises in other newspapers. 21A may cause some … Read more “Quick Cryptic 76 by Izetti”

Off to a quick start in the NW corner, but found the rest a bit more of a struggle. There was one piece of vocabulary that was unfamiliar to me (13dn), but I was relieved … Read more “Quick Cryptic Number 75 by Mara”

Solving time: Medium. I found this quite a challenge today, with a couple of definitions that were new to me and had to be verified by my dictionary (the trusty Big Red Book – Chambers … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 74 by Teazel – Double Trouble!”

Excellent offering from Joker today, I thought. At the easier end of the scale (but no pushover) it includes a wide range of different clue types, and a number of Crosswordland “conventions” – commonly used … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 73 by Joker”

Hello all! As Olivia once remarked, the office temp here standing in for Chrisw91 whilst he is on his travels. A perky little number this one. Some really clever clues I thought and I puzzled … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 72 by Flamande”

As usual on a Monday the button’s not working, so here’s the url of today’s Quickie: http://feeds.thetimes.co.uk/timescrossword/20140616/178/ Tracy’s two most recent puzzles were very easy but this one has a little more depth to it … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 71 by Tracy”

This seems to me to be a notch more difficult than Wednesday’s quickie, it’s a good work-out using some frequently occurring crossword clue-bits, as we shall see. Across 1 INTENDED – At home = IN, … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 70 by Orpheus – European flavour with regular ingredients”

Solving time: Easy end of scale. The Don is back with another user-friendly quick crossword that is straightforward to solve and shouldn’t cause too much stress. Nothing caused me any difficulty; there are a couple … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 69 by Izetti”

I enjoyed this puzzle, a mix of simple and moderately tricky clues, including (as usual) a few where the likely answer springs to mind before the derivation is worked out. Across 1 MUSIC – MC … Read more “Quick Cryptic No. 68 by Rongo”