Category: Quick Cryptic

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”

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”