Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29426
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hola from the Vega Baja where the very quiet summer continues. Very few tourists about and all our bookings on the apartment have cancelled so there’s not much work to do.
Today’s crossword was about as I’ve come to expect for Monday. Not too difficult in the main but with a couple of head scratchers. There seems to me to be a lot of messing about with single letters today. There’s six clues requiring you to use either the first or last letter of a word. There’s also six clues involving anagrams so I know some of you will be happy.
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Political Correctness by PhiSH
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3066 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg, where the typical Prairie summer weather has continued with a couple of ‘heat’ warnings ‘thrown in’ – Friday afternoon was 32 degrees, feels like 44 and yesterday was 32 degrees, feels like 41. … Continue reading
A Puzzle by Shabbo
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29425 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club
Hosted by Tilsit
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Good morning everyone from Warrington!
Thanks to the boss for helping out last week. I’m still feeling a bit drained but have lots to do as I’m representing my colleagues in our redundancy negotiations as well as lots of other challenging things.
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Toughie No 2477 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ****
Lots of great misleads today, especially in the definitions – a joy to solve. Not quite a pangram, as we are missing the J.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29424
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from rainy South Staffs.
We have a pangra missing X this morning, so we may deduce that the setter is ProXimal. A reasonably challenging puzzle which went well into my *** bracket.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29419
A full review by gnomethang
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This puzzle was published on 18th July 2020
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! I found this a fairly standard Saturday puzzle that wasn’t too tricky albeit a couple of references might have stymied some. Continue reading “DT 29419”
Toughie No 2476 by Zandio
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Zandio is fast becoming one of my favourite Toughie setters as he always gives us a proper Toughie where the difficulty comes from cleverly written clues without needing to use obscurities
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29423
Hints and tips by Kath
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BD Rating — Difficulty ***/**** — Enjoyment ****
Hello everyone – here we go again. This is definitely a Ray T day. It has most of his trademark clues, including the Queen who’s reappeared having been in isolation somewhere for the last few weeks.… Continue reading