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

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AUTOPILOT - AU (gold) + TOPI (helmet) + LOT, a piece for auction. George as a name for an autopilot dates from the 1930s, origin unclear... HEXAM– HE + reversed MAX. Appears in Our Mutual Friend, right in chapter 1, messing about in boats on the Thames LOHENGRIN - RHEINGOL[d] N*; Lohengrin is not part of the Ring Cycle, as Rheingold is - just another opera from Wagner. Me, I care little for the music or the man. HEPTAGON– Anagram (irregular) of [ON THE PAG[e}] (not entirely = drop the last letter of {pag}E from the anagrist).

guy_du_sable : Sunday Times Cryptic 5005, by Robert Price — Take 2 puzzles and call me in the morning (just once!) [+19] BEMUSE was COD but my favourite creative writing today is not a clue but part of the blog –“the impatient, out-of-ideas solver trundling up and down the same dead-end alleyway of thought with increasing exasperation” is absolutely brilliant and encapsulates exactly what I do at least three times a week! Definitions underlined in italics, (ABC)* indicating anagram of ABC, {} deletions and [] other indicators. Across INTERPOLATION– anagram (‘out’) of POINT RELATION. The definition is a bit of a stretch but just about works I usually solve online, but this time I had to grab some paper to scribble out the long anagrams and try to decipher them.To enter the contest, one has to complete the crossword and take a print out the same. This has to be sent to The Times registered office with all your personal details attached. The entry to the contest can also be submitted online for members of the Crossword Club DUAL MONARCHY - (CLAMOUR HAYDN)*. The Austro-Hungarian Empire apparently was a dual monarchy, and Haydn of course was Austrian.. 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.

crosswords, which are often particularly difficult due to their word puzzles. This type of crossword puzzles was Definitions underlined in italics, ( Abc)* indicating anagram of Abc, deletions and [] other indicators. AcrossMrs Random will probably snatch the family point from me later, as she is visiting her parents today.

The Times crossword and The Sunday Times crossword both belong to the renowned Times group. The cryptic crossword is published daily from Monday to Saturday. These crossword puzzles can be played online through the Times Crossword Club. The Times Cryptic Crossword answers are published online on the very same day that the puzzle is released. The Times Cryptic Crossword Contest FREE WILL - a reference to a 1993 film, Free Willy, about an orca in an amusement park. Not seen it,but I vaguely remembered the title. Pleasingly, the orca that played Willy was in fact rehabilitated and returned to the wild, as a direct result of the film.

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ARCHIVAL - The ARAL sea is, sadly, no more. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, it is now, in one of our largest environmental tragedies, the Aralkum desert. For the purposes of this clue it contains CHIV, which is slang for a knife. Nho, but did know chivvy, which has the same root. A 90 minute DNF as I couldn’t get HAILSTONE. Saw STONE and still couldn’t get it. That is off the scale incompetence!!! Definitions underlined in bold italics, ( Abc)* indicating anagram of Abc, deletions and [] other indicators. 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. CONFETTI - Another CD, A eference to the littering that often takes place as the happy couple emerge from the church, or registry office. ENCUMBRANCE - (k)EN(t) (middle of Kent, where I live) + CUMBRIA NICE, with all the Is removed. Quite a neat clue!This is a rare one where the H is dropped from the middle of the word. I had ARMLESS, which is a valid word according to the OED, and means “Without weapons”, I guess on reflection that Harmless doesn’t quite mean “suffering no hurt”, but putting this in caused much grief in this corner. 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?