June 9, 2016 – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

Toughie 1618

Toughie No 1618 by Micawber

Hints and tips by Bufo

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BD Rating – Difficulty ***Enjoyment ****

Another enjoyable but not too difficult Micawber offering. I was making very quick progress with it until I was interrupted and lost momentum. But I still managed it in average time and my only real difficulty was in parsing several bung-ins while writing the blog

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DT 28136

 

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28136

Hints and tips by Kath

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BD Rating — Difficulty **Enjoyment ****

Hello everyone – today we have a Ray T crossword. Apart from a couple of clues that I had a spot of bother with I didn’t think it was too tricky.… Continue reading

ST 2850

Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2850

A full review by crypticsue

This puzzle was published on 29 May 2016

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BD Rating – Difficulty **Enjoyment ****

A Virgilius puzzle is always worth looking at twice, and in my case this time enjoy all the more as I hadn’t expected to be reviewing it, and so had forgotten how splendid it was until I enjoyed it all over again while typing this out.… Continue reading