Toughie No 1041 by Notabilis
Hints and tips by Fred and Ginger
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from the Liberace home for Aged Has-Beens. Our Friday tormentor is Notabilis who once again demonstrates the sheer elegance and quality of his clue writing in this splendid challenge. Probably not one of his more difficult ones, but enough in there to stretch your mental muscles. Had a few problems in parsing a couple of clues and I’m not entirely convinced I’ve missed something obvious in 9d.
Our stand-out favourite clue was 26, which made me smile. Fred was so tempted to have MILIBAND as the answer to 20 across but realised otherwise and found a better solution!
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27270
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
In terms of difficulty I thought that this was towards the top of Giovanni’s back-page range and only slightly easier than his Toughie yesterday. I wonder whether he starts out with the intention of creating a puzzle of a specific category or whether he just goes ahead and completes it and only then decides which envelope to put it in.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27265
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
A typical Cephas Saturday puzzle, with quite a few of his trademark anagrams.
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