PostMag Quick Crossword (South China Morning Post)

About PostMag Quick Crossword (South China Morning Post)

The South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's English-language daily, offers two crosswords on its SCMP Games page. The PostMag Quick Crossword is the one it pitches at casual solvers looking for a quick brain boost; the SCMP Cryptic Crossword is the harder one.

Each day's grid is 13 by 13 with about twenty-five clues. The clues are plain synonyms, mostly a single word followed by the answer's length: Barbaric (6), Theft (7), Decisive moment (6). The clues sit in Across and Down lists beside the grid, with the current one in a bar above it.

The puzzle is filed under its date, so every reader solves the same grid that day. As with the other SCMP crosswords, the paper's games page offers a timer, Check/Reveal help and saving, and full access to SCMP Games comes with the paper's app or a subscription.

It suits newer solvers and anyone who wants a short daily crossword without cryptic wordplay.

How to play PostMag Quick Crossword (South China Morning Post)

1. Open today's PostMag Quick Crossword on SCMP Games.
2. Pick a clue from the Across or Down list, or click a square.
3. Think of a word that means the clue and has the length in brackets.
4. Type it in and use the crossing letters to solve the rest.

Tips

• Start with the shortest answers; four- and five-letter words give quick crossing letters.
• A clue's part of speech matches its answer: a verb clue wants a verb.

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