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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
I don’t know who today’s setter is but he or she has given us an interesting puzzle which is a bit different from our usual Tuesday fare. I enjoyed it – let me know how you got on and how you liked it.
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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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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the more difficult clues and provide hints for them.
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A puzzle with a gentle theme from Alchemi
A review by Prolixic follows below Read More
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Matron has insisted that young Tilsit remain for another week in Convalescent Corner, which means that I have crept out of the Weekend Retreat for the second time this week, in order to blog my first whole Toughie. Having sorted out the wordplay (I hope!), I do wonder if perhaps Matron knew what Tilsit was in for with this particular crossword!!
At the bottom of the puzzle in the paper it says ‘All at sea? See the note under the back-page Cryptic Crossword solution’. Look there and, if you can read upside down, you learn that tomorrow is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the 6a whose best-known work is celebrated here.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Giovanni has his trickier hat on today, but this one is well worth persevering with and has some cracking clues. How did you fare with it?
If you need to see an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the clue; if you’re accessing the blog from an I-thingy or similar there is some advice on how to do this in the FAQ.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Cephas put on his slightly trickier hat last Saturday and gave us an entertaining crossword with a nice mix of clues, including his usualbeautifully indicated anagrams. The difficulty rating just sneaked into the 3* category because of problems I had with two clues.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
I enjoyed this puzzle even though I found it to be at the easy end of the Toughie spectrum. There were some nice clues and all were perfectly fair.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Ray T is back! I thought this was one of his easier puzzles, but feel free to disagree. Just a little bit of innuendo and a brief visit from the Queen this time
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
Before I start getting comments from people who think I have reviewed the wrong crossword, can I just remind everyone that, because Telegraph Puzzles have extended the end date for Sunday puzzles from five days after publication to eleven days after publication, this, if you can remember that far back, is the crossword which appeared on Sunday 29 April.
Once again, Virgilius provided us with a splendid treat of a puzzle – it was almost a shame that it was so straightforward as it was over all too soon. Lots of entertainment as usual and I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did.
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The Telegraph has just released two books of Toughie Crosswords, covering the first 200 Toughie puzzles. I was pleased to see that, in his Editor’s Note, Phil McNeill describes Elgar as being “known to his fans as ‘Vlad the Impaler’”. You read that here for the first time in a comment that I made back in July 2011.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
We have a very entertaining puzzle from Elkamere, but with one clue which is bound to infuriate half of the solvers (to be fair Elkamere has made its wordplay about as easy as he could). There is a mini-theme relating to alcohol. I enjoyed it a lot – how about you?
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hola from the Vega Baja and welcome to my 50th blog – not exactly Sachin Tendulkar but a half century ain’t bad!
We have a rather unusual grid today with twelve sets of ‘double unches’ but it didn’t spoil my enjoyment of another excellent Wednesday puzzle.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
I’m not used to getting puzzles this good on a Tuesday! This was a real tour de force from Warbler – with a number of traps for the unwary (me!) in clues like 11a, 14a and 17d, to name but three.
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