Category: Quick Cryptic

Today our porcine setter references himself directly!

A somewhat wriggly one from Wurm today. I began to wonder if we had a bit of a theme with the number of nincompoop references, but maybe I’m just imagining we are being teased.

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

I did rather a lot of biffing in this sub-tricky affair.

Certainly a few entered here without fully understanding the parsing at first – only fully parsed post-solve. However, a backslap to the setter for 3d – Myrtilus’s creation recognised at last!

I’m sure there is a typo at 7d, where “with” should be “within”. What with the backwards usage of “without”, which actually means “within”, I’m calling today St Withins Day.

Hello everyone.  A double definition fest today, but all very enjoyable.  Nothing to send me bananas, and I rather liked the similarly-coloured 6d.  Thanks Mara!

Nice surfaces and a lot of repeated letters

An interesting puzzle from Teazel which took me 11 minutes and 11 seconds to complete…

Another enjoyable tussle with Joker today. I was speeding along, but then my last three took me a good five minutes.

Lots of merriment – drinking, raving and playing around in boats – to be had here.