December 20, 2011 – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

Toughie 687

Toughie No 687 by Warbler

A piece of 11 across!

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Today Warbler presents us with a fairly easy Toughie, as has become the custom for the Tuesday slot. There is a tasty theme running through several of the across answers!

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DT 26740

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26740

Hints and tips by Gazza

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Perhaps the setters think that we’ll all be stressed out with preparing for the festivities this week and have decided to go easy on us with some not too strenuous fare. Certainly this one is not very stress-inducing, including as it does quite a lot of fairly simple anagrams. Your comments, as always, are very welcome.
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