Category: Quick Cryptic

I found this quite straightforward. How did you all get on with it?

I found this even tricker than yesterday’s Joker taking me just under 7 minutes. Lots of letter selection/deletion/substitution clues today, so a good work-out from that perspective. Thank-you Hurley. How did you all get on?

Fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic.  This time it is my turn to provide the extra weekend entertainment. You can find the crossword, entitled “Death of a Canary”, here. Can you identify the event from 100 years ago this month referred to in the grid?

Quite Challenging today, I found.

A medium-paced challenge from Izetti requiring a little extra thought in places.

When does a great clue become a chestnut? For newer solvers, the first time they come across a great cryptic, they want to cry “Bravo, Setter”, but old hands dismiss it with “Chestnut”.

Hello all.  Orpheus is back just a couple of puzzles after his last.  That one was my fastest of the year so far, while today I was just relieved not to be reporting my first DNF of 2023!  I had my fingers crossed that 12a meant what it needed to mean, but the gods were smiling and my faith in wordplay was rewarded.  Lots of nice touches here, I thought – but what did you think?

Enjoyable and straightforward with only a cricket-related quibble

I had no real problems, and expect to see some fast times…

One on the easier side today, with a theme that – most unusually – I spotted.

I think the best term to describe today’s offering from Teazel is “enjoyably chewy”.