September 23, 2010 – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

Toughie 429

Toughie No 429 by Beam

Hardbeam or Quickbeam?

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BD Rating – Difficulty **Enjoyment ***

It’s a new setter today so I’d better be gentle! It was a perfectly acceptable puzzle with nothing that I couldn’t understand. I found to be rather easier than the average Toughie (or perhaps I’m just having a good day) and therefore a quickbeam.

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DT 26349

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26349

A full review by Gnomethang

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BD Rating – Difficulty **Enjoyment ****

Afternoon All! I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle from Cephas. I thought that there were some very nice definitions and some well constructed surface readings.
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DT 26353

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26353

Hints and tips by Big Dave

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BD Rating – Difficulty ***Enjoyment **

One of our mystery setters has produced a puzzle that gave me little pleasure. There were one or two good clues, but I had seen them before which rather took the edge off.  [Subsequent to writing this, it turns out that Allan Scott, aka Campbell, is the setter.]

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