Sunday Toughie No 76 by Robyn
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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Robyn brings us another multi-linked clue in 22a, he did it in Toughie 70 and it is becoming his signature clue type. Getting it early helped me to see a couple of the links and taught me a bit about Japanese fighting animals too.
As usual, I have run out of my quota of hints long before the trickiness has ebbed away, so ask away if you need an extra nudge, a couple of bonus pics may have sneaked in.
Here we go…
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Enigmatic Variations 1598 (Hints)
Action-packed by Eclogue
Hints and tips by The Numpties
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Eclogue set crosswords for all the thematic crossword outlets. This is their sixteenth in the EV series.
Preamble: Answers to five clues consisting of wordplay only are thematically connected to their entries.… Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3220 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg, where, across the Province, it has been considerably cooler but it hasn’t stopped the stormy part of a Prairie Summer.
For me, etc, Dada not very friendly today, although there are four reasonably helpful long ‘uns, shortish on anagrams again, four (two partials), one lurker, and no homophones, – all in a symmetric 28 clues; with 14 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues.… Continue reading