The Times Quick Cryptic Crossword book 1: 80 challenging quick cryptic crosswords from The Times (The Times Crosswords)

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You know what’s coming so you may want to skip my comments below. Don’t blame me if you find them depressing…. MEGALITHIC - An &lit, constructed as follows: A GEM (prized stone set up, ie MEG A) + LIT(erally) + HIC, Latin for "This."

crosswords, which are often particularly difficult due to their word puzzles. This type of crossword puzzles was PIGEON - PIG iron, also known as crude iron, is an intermediate product of the iron industry. EON=age. At The Times, puzzle fans get their money's worth. In addition to the crosswords, which are published daily, connected words. Today, he puts that love of puzzles into The Times Crossword, where he publishes his own EXCHANGE– Double definition. Since farthings and threepenny bits are no longer legal tender, they are now ex-change.MYOPIA– PI (private investigator) in [unruly] ( Mayo)*. Short-sightedness. Did you think the definition was just problem. If so, Wurm might say “gotcha”.

I had to study Henry IV Pt 1 for O Level English. I’ve never managed to love Shakespeare’s history plays after that experience. I don’t think I have come across this as a verb: but the participle “estranged” is quite familiar. I thought it might be an unpaired word like “Disheveled” or “unscathed”, but no, it is valid.

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Hello again. This Jumbo I thought was rather more straightforward than average, with no unknowns and only one spelling issue (at 34dn). Certainly a great deal easier than the beast that was 1548, the last one I blogged. There seemed to be a lot of girls (Ena, Esther, Lucy, Susie) and quite a lot of extremely long single words clued with anagrams. What did you think? BOTTLER– a bottler is an excellent fellow, or suchlike, Down Under; and an important job in a brandy factory Enjoyable puzzle elsewhere that I was merrily biffing my way through before 15ac, and a bit of a pause at 18ac and 16d. 8.30ish for when I limply decided to throw in the towel, for what it’s worth. Poor show from me, good show from Alex, for which many thanks! Across This is another word that you hear a lot in crosswords, as I am sure bloggers say each time, the world “sheriff” comes from “Shire-reeve”, and the Reeve writes one of the Canterbury Tales, along with The Manciple, The Summoner and The Pardoner whom I am sure are just the kind of words the 15×15 chaps come across.

registered users can also test their knowledge and solve The Times Daily Quiz or the interactive quiz Word TRIFID—T[-imes] R[-eview] + IF, “provided” + ID, “papers”; Merriam-Webster: Latin trifidus split into three, from tri- + findere to split …Looked to me like a noun, but lo, it is an adjective. An isobar is a line on a weather map that joins points of equal atmospheric pressure, just as a contour line joins points of equal elevation on a land map. POLITICAL - I [electric current] "input" to (LOCAL PIT*). The def is specifically "government's", as in "of government"My heart sank when I saw “young salmon”, I thought of Milt, Roe, Fry, and Smolt, but apparently a PARR is “A young salmon between the stages of fry and smolt”. At The Times, Richard Rogan has been responsible for editing and creating the Cryptic crosswords since 2014. At the risk of appalling the musicians in the readership, the “staff” is the set of horizontal lines that music is written on, and the first symbol written is normally (always?) the clef, most commonly the treble clef 𝄞 or the bass clef 𝄢. ENCUMBRANCE - (k)EN(t) (middle of Kent, where I live) + CUMBRIA NICE, with all the Is removed. Quite a neat clue!

Odd word, you may have heard of Metatarsal, from the Tarsus, bones in the foot. This is its plural. And St Paul came from Tarsus in Turkey. Since I've been following the elections in the US, Australia and the recent ones in France and the UK, 21 across is one of my favorite clues in a long time, well put setter! RED ALERT– RED (ginger) ALE (beer) RT (right). Fun surface. There I was I thinking it was a nice cup of tea that was called for in such circumstances.INTERPOLATION– anagram (‘out’) of POINT RELATION. The definition is a bit of a stretch but just about works The National Union of Railwaymen ceased to exist from 1990. Setters cling onto their old abbreviations long after the Union has been merged, or renamed. You’ll also see NUT (renamed in 2017) for “teachers”. Word Fills in the correct word for the space or clue you’ve highlighted. If you use a Hint, you won’t get a ranking. ERRED – ER (our late, lamented Queen) and RED (the Queen in Through the Looking Glass was the Red Queen, not to be confused with the Queen of Hearts, who appeared in the earlier book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland). STATUARY - remove the last letter from STATUS(standing) then A, RY(railway, pair of parallel lines)