Category: Quick Cryptic

Breeze-blocked? Don’t worry – you are not alone.

A lot of subtraction(6) clues today, along with a couple of substitutions made this a challenging puzzle.

Hello all. Thanks to Teazel who kicks off a fresh week of quick cryptics. How did you find it?

Riddle me this…

Plain sailing

This took me 09:10 and so I would say is on the upper end of medium. But then again … I fell headfirst into the setter’s trap at 6d, so you may well have done … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic No 2899 by Jalna”

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For me this was a puzzle that was harder to parse than it was to solve just from the definition and crossing letters.

No major problems for me here, but how did you do?

A fairly gentle puzzle from Trelawney in the main, but with a couple of clues that I found required more thought