Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26133
A full analysis by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
This was harder than the usual Saturday puzzle, but after a break last week we have another pangram (see below).
Day: 14 January 2010
Toughie 285
Toughie No 285 by Busman
Can you tell your Arias from your Elbows?
(thanks to Prolixic for the subheading)
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was only slightly spoiled by the serious error at 13 across – checking letters and the wordplay mean that the Verdi red herring shouldn’t hold you up for long. Busman’s previous Toughies have tended towards the easy side, this one is more difficult without being impenetrable.
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DT 26137
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26137
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
Well its Thursday again, and after I had finished this, I thought I would be be repeating my views of last week. But after I had written the blog I thought it was not as bad as I originally thought. Mind you that doesn’t make it particularly good. One problem I had was the lack of variety, how many rats, steamships, first letters, last letters etc. did you find? Ho hum.
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