Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26529
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Fewer anagrams today than usual, but still another classic piece of work from the Monday Maestro. Enjoy.
Month: April 2011
ST 2584 (Hints)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2584 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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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.
NTSPP – 062 (Review)
Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 062
… and nonsense by Radler
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When Gazza refers to a puzzle being the most difficult yet, you know you are in for a challenging solve. I am glad that I had the opportunity to test solve this crossword for Radler as the review may otherwise have been long delayed. This crossword does contain all of the Radler hallmarks of some complicated and intricate wordplay (for example see 23a) but these are balanced by some more straightforward ones (such as 26a) – half the difficultly is spotting the simple ones!
NTSPP – 062 (Comments)
Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 062
… and nonsense by Radler
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a new themed puzzle from Radler.
DT 26528 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26528 (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.
Toughie 546
Toughie No 546 by Osmosis
Back to the Future!
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Tilsit is busy acting as the family chauffeur, so I’m filling in again. Osmosis usually gives the grey cells a good workout, and today is no exception. There is a mini-theme of actors and films from fifty years ago.
ST 2583
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2583
A full review by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Afternoon All!. We have another first rate puzzle from Virgilius with a series of clues linked either by theme or by wordplay, making the solving process all the more enjoyable.
DT 26527
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26527
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
We have the usual entertaining Friday puzzle from Giovanni. Let us have a comment with your views.
If you want to see an answer highlight the space between the brackets under the clue.
DT 26522
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26522
A full review by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I found this one quite hard to get into and wasn’t sure what I thought about it when I had finished, mainly because I spent so long trying to ‘get’ 12a. A closer examination for review purposes has made me realise that it contained an entertaining mix of different types of cryptic clue, so thanks are due once again to Cephas for a nice Saturday puzzle.
Toughie 545
Toughie No 545 by Kcit
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
A typical puzzle from Kcit, perfectly fair and nothing very obscure.