Toughie No 2623 by Serpent
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
A proper Toughie as we’d expect from Serpent. Continue reading “Toughie 2623”
Category: Crosswords
Hints and tips for completing Daily Telegraph Cryptic crosswords
DT 29644
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29644
Hints and tips by Miffypops
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Big Dave’s Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good Morning from a rainy Barrel where your amiable blogger has solved in daylight. Unfortunately some clues left me in the dark until more checkers came along to help. Is it checkers or wavelength that see us through to the end? I say checkers. Feel free to differ. Continue reading “DT 29644”
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Toughie 2622
Toughie No 2622 by Hudson
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Hudson has given us a witty and very enjoyable puzzle today – many thanks to him. The crossword is notable for two reasons – a) it is a double pangram and b) it has no anagrams.… Continue reading
DT 29643
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29643
Hints and tips by 2Kiwis
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
The biannual clock adjustments have now been made so we are now on ‘Winter Blogging Time’.
This means that we get the puzzles and start working on them at 11.00am whereas it does not happen for us until 1.00pm during the summer.… Continue reading
ST 3101
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3101
A full review by Big Dave
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This puzzle was published on 28th March 2021
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Our Sunday Setter was in a generous mood and gave us a reasonably straightforward puzzle this week. Continue reading “ST 3101”
Toughie 2621
Toughie No 2621 by Donnybrook
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Apologies for the lateness of the blog, but an overnight upgrade of Windows 10 nearly wrecked my laptop – I still have a lot to recover.
Another enjoyable puzzle from Donnybrook. Continue reading “Toughie 2621”
DT 29642
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29642
Hints and tips by Mr K
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BD Rating - Difficulty ** - Enjoyment ***
Hello, everyone. I had my second dose of Moderna earlier today, and I was happy to get the hints done before any side-effects appeared. Given that they are proof that the vaccine is doing its thing, I'm not sure if I want them or not. Anyway, we're here to talk about the crossword, so let's move on to that. The long anagrams in today's puzzle provided an early foothold from which I was able to make steady progress. I found a few of the surface readings rather odd. I'd grade it as a solid Tuesday puzzle with nothing super taxing. Continue reading "DT 29642"
DT 29641
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29641
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hola from the Vega Baja where I know that Spring has sprung because the swallows are back form their travels. Unfortunately the weather forecasters don’t agree and say it’s going to go cold and wet for a few days from Wednesday before normal service is resumed next week. Oh well, they aren’t always right.
Today we have a pretty normal Monday puzzle. I thought it was going to be a bit tricky when I only got six of the acrosses on first pass but then the downs came to the rescue in a big way, yielding ten out of the fourteen clues. The missing answers just filled themselves in after that leaving me wondering why I missed them the first time. Just being a bit slow I guess.
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