Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26607
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
You can tell its Monday just by doing the crossword…
Month: July 2011
ST 2597 (Hints)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2597 (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 – 075 (Review)
Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 075
A Puzzle by Boaz
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Getting to the bottom of things
It’s a warm welcome back to Boaz with a cracking puzzle (full of cracks to be sure). I have highlighted my favourite clues in blue below. We look forward to an early return to the series from our latest setter.
NTSPP – 075 (Comments)
Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 075
A Puzzle by Boaz
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have another cheeky puzzle from Boaz. If you enjoyed his last puzzle, then I hope you will find this one is even better.
DT 26606 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26606 (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 598
Toughie No 598 by Notabilis
All the World’s…
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Greetings from the Calder Valley. It’s time for the Friday Mental Massage and Notabilis is our tormentor today, which always ensures a good battle. No disappointment today but we do seem to have a thespian theme to the puzzle today. The puzzle does have a Nina (hidden message) running round the perimeter, but I can’t think of a link to the four words produced.
Incidentally, I hope you managed to catch this week’s Desert Island Discs which featured the Guardian’s doyen of the puzzle Araucaria. A wonderful listen and still available via the BBC iPlayer.
ST 2596
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2596
A full review by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Afternoon All!. We have another non-themed puzzle from Virgilius which was not overly difficult but was of the usual high standard of cluemanship and enjoyment. A pleasure to solve and to review.
DT 26605
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26605
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
Today’s Giovanni is not the most difficult Friday puzzle ever and it has lots and lots of proper names. Let us know how you found it in a comment.
If you want to see an answer highlight the space between the brackets under the clue.
DT 26600
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26600
A full review by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
The Saturday Mysteron once again produced one of their crosswords where it seemed to take ages for the pennies to drop and the clues to be solved, but, in the end, everything fell into place in my usual Saturday solving time. Thanks once again to the Mysteron for a nice Prize Puzzle – my favourite clues are marked in blue.
Toughie 597
Toughie No 597 by MynoT
Where’s the pot of gold?
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
With this puzzle MynoT reaches the end of the rainbow. It has as its theme the final two colours of the rainbow with several answers being appropriately coloured. I started very quickly and thought I was on target for a very quick solve but I did then slow down a little. Even so I found it to be at the easier end of the Toughie spectrum.