Category: Quick Cryptic

I found Peridot’s first puzzle to be approachable, taking 13 minutes…

I found this on the tricky side, but enjoyable.

12:29. Not as hard as the Orpheus from 4 weeks ago but the two long answers and some less common words, eg 12a, extended my solving time.

I was a little disturbed by not knowing the word at 1ac but things went smoothly apart from  a minor hold up at the end on 11dn and 24ac.

A rather neat Quick Cryptic of, I think, average difficulty from Wurm today. Thank-you Wurm!

Fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic. This time it is Sawbill’s turn to provide the extra weekend entertainment. You can find the crossword, our 90th, here.

Beck’s sixth outing, providing a quality puzzle pitched around average difficulty.

Painstaking wordbuilding and momentary bafflement aside, an enjoyable offering from Hurley’s brow…

A fun one with a fairly easy-to-spot twist.

Hello all.  I don’t anticipate many complaints that this was too hard, but what do I know?  It went very smoothly for me, both to solve and to write up, that’s all I can say.  Except to add that I liked it – thanks Oink!

Nice compact offering from Felix, little harder that usual, and with a few that took a while to parse