Toughie No 323 by Citrus
Return of the Grumpy Old Man
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
What could have been an entertaining puzzle was, for me at least, spoiled by some of the constructs. I was particularly unhappy with wasting a lot of time on 13 across, only to find out that you had to solve one homophone before tackling the next.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26195
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I thought that today’s puzzle was less tricky than most Shamus puzzles (I assume that it’s by Shamus – apologies if I’ve got that wrong), but as we’ve said before a puzzle doesn’t have to be very difficult to be entertaining. It does have rather a lot of place names (three in England and one in South America) which I know that some people won’t like – let us know what you think of all the place names and of the puzzle generally with a comment!
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