Category: Quick Cryptic

After Juno’s very tricky QC yesterday, we have another tricky one from Mara today. Some nebulous definitions and deceptive wordplay made it slow going for me But there were some good clues along the way. I particularly liked 18A, 6D and 10D. Thank-you Mara. How did you all get on?

Quite Challenging!

A gentle romp through today’s grid with Orpheus as our guide…

Hurley sets a good puzzle which kept me thinking and led to a Baroque time, 17:20. 

Hello all.  I liked this puzzle, which took me about average time (20s over).  Obviously I appreciated the clues featuring cats, but really there are so many good ones here that I can’t pick out a small number for special mention.  Just have a scan again through the clues to see how smoothly they read and you should see what I mean.  Thanks Teazel!

Generally quick with a slow SW corner

This took me 12 minutes, 50% more than yesterday…

One on the easier end from Teazel, but with some parsing difficulties. Fortunately, helpful crossing letters came to my aid.

I particularly enjoyed this offering from Orpheus – one of my favourite QC’s for some time.

I was unable to get any rhythm or flow going during my solve and wasted a lot of time hopping around the grid in the process.