January 29, 2011 – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

NTSPP – 051 (Comments)

Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 051

A puzzle by Qix

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Welcome to the fifty first in our series of weekly puzzles.

Qix makes a quick return to the NTSPP fold with this new puzzle. He’s promised not to use triple unches in future!

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Crossword Course in Oxford

Crossword Course in Oxford

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A few tickets are still available.

Don “Giovanni” Manley is giving a one-day course on “How to solve cryptic crosswords”.  The course is in Oxford, and is in aid of his local church.
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DT 26462 (Hints)

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26462 (Hints)

Big Dave’s Saturday Crossword Club

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I will be at the Sloggers and Betters meeting in Derby all day, but I’m sure you will be looked after by the rest of the team.

As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.

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