Toughie No 358 by Firefly
A little fun in the sun
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This was quite a straightforward solve with mostly easy clues; in fact the only really tough bit was the sting in the tail wordplay conundrum posed by the very last clue.
There were just a couple of moments where I thought the legitimacy of the wordplay was questionable, but it was never anything that hindered solving and the clues rarely fall foul of Ximenean standards. The enjoyment rating for me was strictly moderate – good clues all round, but no “Wow” moments bar 7a which I think is very cleverly observed.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2536
A full analysis by Peter Biddlecombe
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment *****
Quite an easy one I thought – maybe as a lot of the answers seem to be words that come up in crossword grids. All clued as well as you’d expect, in a very clean-looking grid, with just 10 black squares added to the basic lattice.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26246
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
We have a good selection of smooth, entertaining clues from Giovanni today, but sprinkled among them are quite a few pretty easy ones (and I dithered between two and three stars for difficulty – I think that this is a definite 2½). Do you agree or not? In either case we’d love to get a comment telling us what you think of it.
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