Toughie No 3476 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***/****
Sparks has given us an enjoyable but not too tough pangram today. Thanks to him.
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Category: Toughie Crosswords
Toughie 3475
Toughie No 3475 by Django
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ****
This is really great fun and not very tough. Many thanks to Django for the enjoyment.
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Toughie 3474
Toughie No 3474 by Kcit
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Toughie 3473
Toughie No 3473 by Dharma
Hints and tips by ALP
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment *****
Typically clever stuff from Dharma. He’s shown us a lot of love here to put a real shift in: honed surfaces, imaginative wordplay and fun pay-offs.… Continue reading
Sunday Toughie 171 (Hints)
Sunday Toughie No 171
by Beam
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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Beam here with quite a friendly Sunday Toughie, all his trademarks are present and I dont think this will trouble solvers too much. I will endeavour to provide a nudge or two if your experience differs
We have 14a and 14d clues and I have hinted half.
Here we go, Folks…
Toughie 3472
Toughie No 3472 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Toughie 3471
Toughie No 3471 by Beam
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
We have a typical Beam puzzle today. Thanks to him.
One thing we can be sure of with Beam is that his puzzles won’t leak on to a second page of printout.
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Toughie 3470
Toughie No 3470 by Prime
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment *****
And the award for the most words on one sheet of paper goes to … Leo Tolstoy*… sorry, I mean Prime!
Toughie 3469
Toughie No 3469 by Dada
Hints and tips by ALP
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
Dada’s back again with a largely straightforward puzzle – just a couple of scratchy synonyms (17a) and one leap of faith (20a) kept me on my toes.… Continue reading
Toughie 3468
Toughie No 3468 by Karla
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Thanks to Karla for an enjoyable puzzle. After failing to notice his Nina in the past I remembered to look this time but failed to find one. Did you do any better? I did notice that there are a number of metals in the grid but not enough, I think, to form a theme.
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