Toughie No 2135 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ****
A beautiful sunny day in Macclesfield. The puppies have shredded some paperwork; optimistically, I shrug it off as unimportant. Not sure why my wife bought a shredder. Sparks gives us a lovely pangram today, which helped me with 5d.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28910
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs where, for a change, we have a sunny start to the day.
Apart from the minor technical glitch which affected 9d when I first solved the puzzle on the website just after it had been published last night, this was a reasonably straightforward Giovanni, with the usual inclusion of some GK and the odd unusual word, but entirely secular, so that delicate souls like Brian won’t be ‘offended’ by references to religion.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28905
A full review by crypticsue
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This puzzle was published on 24th November 2018
BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
This extremely gentle Saturday Prize Puzzle marks the very accomplished debut DT crossword of a new young lady setter – which has to be a good thing for Crosswordland as we need more female setters.… Continue reading
Toughie No 2134 by Messinae
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I had to check the term for the police in 8 down but otherwise it was all plain sailing
Please leave a comment telling us what you thought.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28909
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where winter has set in early — although we have been granted a brief reprieve with temperatures hovering around the freezing point.
Today’s puzzle is from RayT and it contains most — if not all — of his signature clues.… Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2978
A full review by crypticsue
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This puzzle was published on 18th November 2018
BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment **
The first paragraph below is an edited version of my comment made on publication day
I tried very hard before I started solving to forget that it was Sunday, and that we had a different setter.… Continue reading
Toughie No 2133 by Giovanni
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Today we have a pangram from Giovanni that’s not too tricky and doesn’t have too many religious obscurities.
Please leave a comment telling us how you fared and what you thought of it.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28908
Hints and tips by 2Kiwis
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
We’re back to our full team again this week.
Rather unsettled weather recently. A series of active frontal systems have been moving across the country giving variable and changeable conditions. Pretty typical for this time of the year.… Continue reading