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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
A very easy start to the week, but our Monday Maestro is as enjoyable as ever.
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Why not try your hand at the December Prize puzzle.
As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a number of the more difficult clues and provide hints for them.
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There’s a new Prize Puzzle available today – I know it’s tough, but that should increase your chances of winning!
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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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle? The winner will receive their choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books published by Hamlyn.
Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.
A review will follow after the closing date (21 st December 2013).
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
With the exception of the obscure (to me) Korean port in 1 across this was a very enjoyable puzzle.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs where the weather is a little quieter than yesterday. I hope all our readers are safe from storm and flood.
Giovanni’s trademark obscure word at 19d sent me to the BRB to checkwhat I’d got from the very fair wordplay, but the rest fell into place and I finished in ** time.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! Firstly a massive thank you to Crypticsue who kindly typed up the blog framework for me. We still don’t have access to the online puzzles and hence cannot use the Word macro to render the blog template as normal. I found this pretty straightforward apart from about 3 clues which were easy but I made heavy weather of. Lots of charades in a row (when I came to review) sort of lowered my enjoyment. That was probably just me though.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
This is Sparks’s second Toughie and the first one that I’ve attempted. I made slow but steady progress until I hit a brick wall in the shape of the last clue ( 27 down ). I have finally come up with an answer for it but I’m not convinced by it. I have assigned the stars by considering the puzzle without 27 down . If I were to include 27 down I would add a star to the difficulty and deduct a star from the enjoyment.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Morning all!. This was yet another ace Virgilius puzzle. There were a few clues that really took some teasing out (as there should be in a Prize Puzzle) but the rewards upon completion were considerable.
{ Well said eXternal, Vigo and Only Fools (and nice "budding"... } – 10 Dec, 1:05 am
{ Echo all of the above ,just got to this for... } – 10 Dec, 12:38 am
{ Thank you from me too. Lovely grid from Alchemi, excellent... } – 09 Dec, 6:39 pm
{ Just like to add my thanks, too. Nice work by... } – 09 Dec, 2:33 pm
{ Congratulations and very appreciative thanks to the many-headed Hydra, Crypticsue,... } – 09 Dec, 10:26 am { Plus one as Libellule said recently ,indefatigable . } – 10 Dec, 12:48 am
{ No, Andy, I'm missing the usual three Rufus/ Dante puzzles,... } – 09 Dec, 10:36 pm { That suggestion sounds to me like a plot in an... } – 09 Dec, 10:25 pm
{ Condolences from me, Cynth and Cuth too Graham } – 09 Dec, 10:24 pm { Thirded } – 09 Dec, 10:18 pm
{ I've found the link to which you were referring, and... } – 09 Dec, 10:16 am
{ Thanks Dave, that supplied link to the pdf works fine,... } – 09 Dec, 9:44 am
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