Click here to read about the origin of this series of crosswords.
A brief history of the origins of these crosswords for those who are new to them. As a blogger of the Times Quick Cryptic Crossword on Times for The Times every other Friday, I often had comments on the blog bemoaning that The Times only provides a Quick Cryptic on Mondays to Fridays. When I finally gave up work at the end of February 2020, I decided that I would try my hand at compiling crosswords. It was with some trepidation that I published, in May 2020, the first of these Weekend Quick Cryptics to fill the gap. Well it seemed to go down well so I did another. And then my fellow crossword solver and commenter on Times for the Times, Phil Jordan, volunteered to produce some too. And then, more recently, so did Sawbill. So now the three of us take turns, publishing each new crossword via my Friday Quick Crossword blog.
This time it is Sawbill's turn to provide the fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic crossword, Number 90 in the series.
You can try and solve the crossword interactively here on MyCrossword or here on crossword.info. As usual you can download a PDF to print which you can find here. Alternatively you can copy and print the image below. Comments and queries are welcome with the solution post (which also gives tips on some of the clues). I will react to any comments or queries there as soon as I can. You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here.
I really enjoyed this although when I first saw it I thought I would struggle more than I did.
ReplyDeleteMy LOI was MOUNTAINEER WHICH made ma smile after doing an alphabet trawl once I had all the checkers.
I initially put IMPERFECT for IMPATIENT as although it didn’t seem to fit the clue it was all I could think of at the time.
My heart sank when I thought I might have to rack my brains for Greek goddesses and Shakespearean plays but in the end they went in easily.
My favourite surface was 16D - we really do follow all them people in the way to Buckingham Palace for those major royal events.
Thanks Sawbill so much for the crossword.
Glad you enjoyed it. But did you mean IMPATIENT for IMPERFECT? IMPERFECT (the grammatical tense) is the right answer?
Delete