Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 072
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have another puzzle from our very own Prolixic.
Month: June 2011
DT 26588 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26588 (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 586
Toughie No 586 by Elgar
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Tilsit and I were going to share the honours today with me doing the across hints and him the downs, but it seems that he prefers the company of the pretty nurses at the hospital, so I’ve done his bit as well!
As is usual with an Elgar puzzle, there are too many excellent clues to be able to single out favourites.
ST 2593
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2593
A full review by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Thank you once again to Virgilius for the usual splendid Sunday challenge, which didn’t take me long to solve but was, as we have come to expect, very enjoyable. My favourite clue, 13a, is worth 5* on its own. I also really liked the linking of the down clues 1 and 22; 2 and 19; 6 and 16; and 7 and 21.
DT 26587
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26587
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
We have the usual entertaining Friday puzzle from Giovanni. Let us know how you got on with it (and do have a go at the Quickie pun – it’s very good).
If you want to see an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the relevant clue.
DT 26582
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26582
A full review by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All!. I think that everyone agreed on the day that this was a fairly straightforward puzzle from Cephas but I still enjoyed that solve and also the review. For those wondering about the Chinese influence in this review may I draw your attention to the correspondence below regarding my review of DT 26437 with reference to 21a in that puzzle!
Toughie 585
Toughie No 585 by Micawber
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
[Today is another milestone – this is the 500th Toughie (excluding online-only specials) that has been reviewed on this site! BD]
This was by far the most enjoyable Thursday Toughie for some time. I found it to be of above average difficulty and it needed a lot of thought to work out some of the wordplay. But it was all perfectly fair and contained nothing particularly obscure (with the possible exception of the answer to 13 across).
DT 26586
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26586
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment *
The best thing about this puzzle for me was that it was all over very quickly. Eleven of the twenty-eight clues involved an anagram – which should please some of you.
Toughie 584
Toughie No 584 by Firefly
Stone the Crows
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Like others I’ve had a frustrating morning with the on-line site. Luckily I managed to print out the puzzle, but my attempts to submit the answers were met with the infuriating clock whizzing round and a multitude of “Error 0 Occurred” responses before the thing died completely. Since I wasn’t prepared to type all the answers in again I’m not able to give a 100% guarantee that all my solutions are correct (but I’m pretty confident).
In spite of all the hassle I did enjoy this puzzle which has some lovely penny-drop moments. Let us know what you thought in a comment.
DT 26585
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26585
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
We have been served up a very solid offering today by Jay. Personally, I found it to be a bit more difficult than his typical fare. Nevertheless, I solving it was a thoroughly enjoyable exercise – and I toyed with the idea of giving it another star in that category.