January 20, 2019 – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

MPP 080 – Review

Monthly Prize Puzzle 080 – Review

January 2019

A puzzle by Radler

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Congratulations to this month’s winner – Milvus  – who wins a Daily Telegraph Puzzles book of their choice.

The question said:  Several answers contain alphabetical sequences of two or more letters. (E.g. Afghan has FGH.)Continue reading

ST 2987 (Hints)

Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2987 (Hints)

Hints and tips by Senf

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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg, where, with extreme low temperatures and wind chills, the weather forecasts are including time for frostbite on exposed skin (10 minutes or less).

Today, Dada has provided us a Toughie type of puzzle, and when I thought I had finished I had to rely on web site submission for confirmation, containing two anagrams (one of them a partial), one homophone, and one lurker.… Continue reading