Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26351
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This is a thoroughly entertaining Ray T puzzle with lots of very amusing clues. It also has a mini-theme with the two parallel down answers at the outer edges of the grid having a connection. Let us know what you made of it in a comment.
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Guardian Quiptic 566
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Those of you who have finished today’s puzzle in the time it takes to boil an egg might like to try their hands at today’s Guardian Quiptic puzzle. This is only available online and a new puzzle is published every Monday. In the unlikely event that you have any problems, you can nip over to Fifteensquared and read my review there.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26350
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
The usual Monday fun from Rufus. But I don’t expect many of you will need the hints!
You can see the answer by highlighting the space between the curly brackets.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2554 (Hints)
Pieces of eight from Cap’n Dave
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Ahoy me hearties for today it be Talk Like a Pirate Day. Ye comments may be in Pirate or English, for one day only!
As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.
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NTSPP – 032 (Review)
A crossword by Anax
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Anax plays bass guitar in a band. His musical tastes have, however, plumbed new depths in the theme to this puzzle. A number of the clues refer to words that appear in the song that is the answer to 14a/7d. Rolf Harris has a lot to answer for!
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 032
A Puzzle by Anax
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Welcome to the thirty second in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have another excellent puzzle from Anax that is as good as those of his that are published in the national press.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26349 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Saturday Crossword Club
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.
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Toughie No 426 by Osmosis
The Grumpy Old Man Reloaded
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
I have enjoyed many previous puzzles from Osmosis, but I found this one to be a bit of a slog for little reward.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2553
A full analysis by Peter Biddlecombe
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment *****
This was a very easy puzzle for me – apart from the beginning of an indecipherable jotting for 7A, presumably interrupted by spotting the answer or deciding to move on, my copy has no writing other than the completed grid and the timing. Part of the easiness probably came from the two long answers which are old crossword favourites. The clues include some of BG’s lively twists on cryptic wordplay, and as usual they make good sense in both the cryptic and surface readings.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26348
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
I’d be interested to hear from those who did Wednesday’s Toughie (also by Giovanni) as to how you think that one compares with this one. It seems to me that they are of a very similar standard of difficulty. If you didn’t do Wednesday’s Toughie I’d still like to hear what you thought of this one.
For newcomers, the answers are concealed between the brackets under the relevant clues. Just drag your cursor through the space between the brackets to unhide one.
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