Toughie No 1505 by Samuel
Hints and tips by Toro
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **/***
A decent first Toughie of the week from Samuel, if perhaps not his most entertaining.
Tag: Answers
DT 27967
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27967
Hints and tips by Hanni
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Today, thanks to some mentoring by Miffypops, we welcome Hanni with her maiden blog.… Continue reading
DT 27966
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27966
Hints and tips by Kitty
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Hello and welcome to you all. This went in smoothly as silk for me, so I’ve only given it one star for difficulty. … Continue reading
Toughie 1504
Toughie No 1504 by Notabilis
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Pleasant and well-clued puzzle today – definitely not too tough so do try.… Continue reading
DT 27964
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27964
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs on another grey day.… Continue reading
DT 27959
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27959
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment **
This puzzle was published on Saturday, 14th November 2015
When I’d finished solving the crossword, I decided this would be an ideal puzzle for anyone new to cryptic crosswords (or a newspaper hoping to increase the number of people entering the prize competition), but judging from a few of the comments on the day, perhaps I was wrong.
Toughie 1503
Toughie No 1503 by Petitjean
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
I really struggled with this one. It didn’t help that my brain’s anagram function appeared to be switched off because I made hard work of the 9-letter anagrams.… Continue reading
ST 2821
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2821
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ***/****
This puzzle was published on Sunday, 8th November 2015
I did agree with other solvers on the day that this crossword provided yet another fine start to Sunday morning.
However, I bet none of the commenters noticed what I did once I started to draft this review. Almost half of the clues are ‘insertion’ clues – I’ve had to type the word ‘inserted’ eight times, and there were five other clues requiring you to put something inside something else. I’ve deducted half a star from the enjoyment rating as this week I ended up a little grumpy whereas normally blogging the Sunday puzzle gives you twice the fun than any other day’s crossword review.
DT 27963
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27963
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty * / ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa where we have — for the most part — been enjoying a warmer than normal autumn.… Continue reading
Toughie 1502
Toughie No 1502 by Elkamere
Poptastic
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment *****
Last week a Micawber, this week a superb puzzle from Elkamere – Wednesdays can’t get much better.… Continue reading