Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2587 (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.
Month: May 2011
NTSPP – 065 (Comments)
Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 065
Smoke And Mirrors by Radler
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a themed puzzle from Radler.
DT 26546 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26546 (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 558
Toughie No 558 by Osmosis
Creatures of Habit
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Osmosis is back with his fiendishly complex clues to torment us today. A very enjoyable puzzle with a few creatures featuring in the solutions, as well as some contemporary references and clever surface readings. One of the attractions of the Toughie for me is that we get up-to-date and topical clues in many of the puzzles (the Rooney clue in yesterday’s Giovanni made me giggle!). I particularly liked today’s offbeat clue at 25a, but quite a few of the others were equally clever.
ST 2586 Review
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2586
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The closing date for this Prize puzzle has been put back, so the review will be published at 12.00noon on Tuesday, 10th May.
DT 26545
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26545
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Friday’s puzzle is meant to be the toughest of the week and I think that this one lives up to its billing. I found it to be on a par with Giovanni’s Toughie yesterday for difficulty. There are some very entertaining clues and 3d on its own earns it a fourth enjoyment star from me.
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DT 26540
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26540
Hints and tips by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All!. Despite the number of ‘two synonyms plus a letter insertion’ type clues that I encountered whilst reviewing this puzzle I actually enjoyed the solve quite a lot. There were a few very good clues although the ambiguity at 12 Across was quite surprising.
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Toughie 557
Toughie No 557 by Giovanni
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This was a very pleasant puzzle from Giovanni. I didn’t find it too difficult although I did slow down in the north-east corner where 8 down was new to me and the wordplay at 6 across evaded me for a time.
DT 26544
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26544
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
As promised, a double dose of Ray T this week. What you see is what you get!
Sloggers and Betters 7
Sloggers and Betters 7
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| What? | The 7th annual “Sloggers and Betters” gathering for crossword setters and blog contributors and readers will take place in London, following on, as last year, from the annual lunch for Times setters. |