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(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) A fairly easy Quiptic. Thanks to … Read more >>
Well, come on, tell me what you thought. Lurkers are particularly invited to comment. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator … Read more >>
Nutmeg returns to the Quiptic with a puzzle to get the old grey cells ticking over once again.
Orlando’s got the hang of this Quiptic thing, you know. A delightful puzzle, full of clear cluing and fine surface readings. I’ll be farming this one out to my friends who are just … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) I think this was of the … Read more >>
Bonjour! I liked this Quiptic: one or two tricky clues to parse, but once you’d reached base camp, the rest was all there to be worked out and the summit was attainable. Just … Read more >>
The third outing in the Quiptic slot for Provis, whose identity remains a closely guarded secret.
Moley has been setting Guardian Quiptic puzzles since 2000, so I think we could call her a regular. She has set us another good one today: not a write-in by any means, but … Read more >>
I’m not so sure about the ‘Qui….’ part of this puzzle but maybe that was due to the fact that I had slept longer than usual last night and perhaps my brain was … Read more >>
Nutmeg continues to set the Quiptic, although she is now a regular compiler of the Guardian cryptic as well. It took me as long to do the NE corner of this puzzle as … Read more >>
This week’s Quiptic is by Orlando, one of my favourite setters.
I liked this Quiptic from Hectence. It wasn’t all completely straightforward to solve or parse, but once you had a foothold I think an improving solver could be expected to work through the … Read more >>
According to the Guardian website, Provis has only appeared twice before today, once in February and once in April. At that time I wasn’t solving the Quiptic on a regular basis and so … Read more >>
A Quiptic that hits the spot from Pan this morning. Some clever cluing and nothing too controversial. I’m on a bit of a mission today, so just a brief blog (what do you … Read more >>
My apologies for the late appearance of this post. I needed to be reminded (thanks Pierre) that the scheduled blogger had not turned up. In the interest of minimising the lateness, I will … Read more >>