Category: Quick Cryptic

Another new setter, Shay, joins the QC roster and, like some of their recent predecessors, kicks off with what I found was quite a tough puzzle.

Another chewy challenge from cheeky Cheeko today, with a couple of tricky clues among the more usual Quick Cryptic fare.

Fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic.  This time it is Phil’s turn to provide the extra weekend entertainment. You can find the crossword  here.

A bit on the tricky side

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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