Category: Quick Cryptic

14 minutes. Not the best of days for me.

A nice Quick Cryptic from Jalna today, if a bit tricky in parts

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

Good quality puzzle, tricky enough.

A thought-provoking challenge from Felix who is known for the ninas and themes with which his grids are occasionally spiced. Always worth reviewing the grid on completion to see if you can spot anything….

A challenge from Mara which uses one word that I can’t find in the OED or Collins. My time 14:28.

Hello everybody.  I enjoyed this puzzle, which felt trickier than my time would suggest.
My last in was 11d.  12a made me smile to solve, but not to write up in the blog!  I liked 3d because it could be very apt for anyone not a fan of the relevant wordplay.  It would also indeed be irksome if the setter tended to leave bits out of the clues.  Happily, all present and correct here – thanks Joker.

No sign of the King so far

I don’t have a time for my solve as I experienced a major interruption mid-solve, but I think I was comfortably inside my target…

I found this one from Pedro to be on the harder side, with a fair number of clues that combined multiple elements and needed careful parsing.

Lots to enjoy here in this offering from Hurley. Apologies for the late appearance of the blog – mea culpa