Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26877
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
An enjoyable but not over taxing Rufus crossword to start the week.
Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
Monday’s regular setter is Roger Squires, who is also known as Rufus
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
An enjoyable but not over taxing Rufus crossword to start the week.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I struggled with this today, but I don’t know why… how did you get on? Favourite clue – 21a. It took me ages to spot the anagram indicator.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
The sun is shining here in the Loire and I have really enjoyed doing this Rufus crossword. It seemed slightly trickier than usual, but there are some excellent and entertaining clues which provided more than a few “of course” moments.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This entertaining Rufus puzzle is a typical start to the crosswording week.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This seems to be a lot more straight forward than Friday’s, so I don’t expect much use of the hints today.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Libellule is otherwise engaged today so he and I have done a swap, which enables me to blog a puzzle from our very popular Monday setter. I don’t know about you but I thought that this was a bit trickier than we usually get on Mondays. It has a good supply of the trademark cryptic definitions and I found it very entertaining.
Please let us know how you got on. If you want to reveal an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the clue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Another typically enjoyable Rufus crossword to start the week. Got a bit stuck on 8d (don’t ask why) when I thought the answer was “in ones power”.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Maybe its because its a Bank Holiday Monday in France too, but I enjoyed this offering from Rufus today. Happy Easter all!
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Another lovely day here today, although we have a cold north wind. Today we have a normal enjoyable Monday crossword from Rufus.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Lovely weather here in the Loire at the moment, and an equally pleasant crossword to start the week.