Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26468 (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.
Month: February 2011
Toughie 506
Toughie No 506 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Tilsit
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from a wind and rain-lashed Calder Valley and a feeling-grotty Blogger.
Whether it’s the weather or my grottiness, but I didn’t enjoy this one quite as much as others by Osmosis, who is normally one of my favourite setters. I found it a bit of a slog rather than a challenge with a few weak, almost contrived clues on display rather than the usual elegant surface readings. There is still much to be admired in the puzzle and I have highlighted favourite clues in blue.
ST 2573
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2573
A full review by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
As I said to Gnomethang, we are going to have terrible trouble reviewing Sunday Prize Puzzles as Virgilius gives us such wonderful entertaining clues that we are going to run out of superlatives. Today’s puzzle was no exception – it had a theme, a variety of wonderful clues and was enjoyed by all.
DT 26467
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26467
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
I’m feeling in a particularly good mood today (the start of the Six Nations rugby tournament always cheers me up) and I really enjoyed this Giovanni puzzle. Let us know whether you feel the same way about it in a comment.
The answers, should you need them, are lurking between the curly brackets under the clues. Highlight the space between the brackets to reveal one.
DT 26462
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26462
A full review by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
Morning All!. We had a pretty standard difficutly puzzle from Cephas this week but my enjoyment was spoilt by the Charade count – the whole puzzle felt a bit samey and a few very good clues didn’t really help improve my opinion.
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D-Day Crosswords
D-Day Telegraph Crosswords
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I’m sure that most of you will be aware of the stir that was created during World War II when several secret code words turned up in Daily Telegraph crosswords. Roger “Rufus” Squires has recorded a short piece that will be broadcast tomorrow, Friday 4th February, during the One Show (7.00-7.30pm on BBC 1).
Anyone who has corresponded with Roger will know that he has led an interesting life and has so many stories that he can tell. The following snippets are reproduced, with permission, from his email telling me about the programme.
Toughie 505
Toughie No 505 by Kcit
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Another pleasant offering from Kcit which didn’t cause too many problems. The last two in were 12 across and 8 down.
DT 26466
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26466
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
As some of you have guessed, today we have another Ray T puzzle. It’s not too difficult, so worth having a go.
Toughie 504
Toughie No 504 by Firefly
Groundhog Day
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
Today is groundhog day and it felt like it when I was solving this puzzle, again and again coming across clues where you have to remove one or more letters from the fodder before you can work out an anagram. Writing the review did make me appreciate it more (and there are some very good clues) but I still think that there are too many of these convoluted anagrams.
Let us know how you fared with it and please remember to click on one of the stars below to show how much you enjoyed it.
DT 26465
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26465
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I had the great pleasure to meet Jay last Saturday. I hope he will let us all out of our agony and tell us whether he finally managed to catch a train home after narrowly missing the first one! By the way there are a couple of pictures of our Wednesday Wizard on the blog’s facebook page (see link in the side panel).