January 29, 2009 – 12:00 am
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NTSPP – 172
A Puzzle by Elgar
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27187 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Crossword Club
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Here are the pictures of last Thusday’s S&B Meeting .
As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.
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Toughie No 985 by Osmosis
Putting faces to the names
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from the Terpsichoreans (that’s not a recently discovered group of Greek islands!) As you may know, there was a gathering of the great and the good of the crossword world in Wapping yesterday and your dancing duo were there.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27186
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This is the second Giovanni puzzle I’ve blogged this week and I enjoyed this one more that Wednesday’s Toughie. Let us know your take on it.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27181
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All!. I thought this was a reasonable test for a Saturday puzzle and quite enjoyed it.
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Toughie No 984 by Petitjean
Hints and Tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Even Petitjean puzzles are fairly straightforward when it’s my turn to blog!
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27185
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
A slightly tricky puzzle which I found to be a tad more difficult than today’s Toughie.
I’m off to London for the S&B meeting, and hope to see some of you there.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2691
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Morning All! – Another fine puzzle from Virgilius. I nearly gave this four stars for difficulty but when reviewing realised it was just me having a bad day!.
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Toughie No 983 by Giovanni
Thank Goodness for Wikipedia
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
There were quite a few answers today (especially in the across clues) which I didn’t know and which I needed to verify with Google or Wikipedia, but as always Giovanni’s wordplay is very precise and I didn’t find the whole thing too difficult (it was made easier by being able to work out the long anagram fairly early on from the enumeration).
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27184
Hints and tips by scchua
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BD Rating – Difficulty *+*/2 – Enjoyment ***
This was quite easy (1.5-2* difficulty), and a 3* for enjoyment (short as it was). Thanks to Jay.
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