Toughie No 429 by Beam
Hardbeam or Quickbeam?
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
It’s a new setter today so I’d better be gentle! It was a perfectly acceptable puzzle with nothing that I couldn’t understand. I found to be rather easier than the average Toughie (or perhaps I’m just having a good day) and therefore a quickbeam.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26349
A full review by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Afternoon All! I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle from Cephas. I thought that there were some very nice definitions and some well constructed surface readings.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26353
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
One of our mystery setters has produced a puzzle that gave me little pleasure. There were one or two good clues, but I had seen them before which rather took the edge off. [Subsequent to writing this, it turns out that Allan Scott, aka Campbell, is the setter.]
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