Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26595
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
An entertaining themed (but not too difficult) crossword today from Rufus.
Month: July 2011
ST 2595 (Hints)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2595 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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I have added some pictures of the last two S&B meetings to the blog’s facebook page.
As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.
NTSPP – 073 (Review)
Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 073
A Puzzle by Gazza
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Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Gazza is back with his third NTSPP and does not disappoint. Given that he would not be reviewing this one he has ensured that the reviewer will be able to maintain gazza’s own high standard of pictoral hints and I intend not to disappoint.
Sloggers and Betters Prize Puzzle
Sloggers and Betters Prize Puzzle
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At the recent Sloggers & Betters meeting in Birmingham, Anax handed out a puzzle for the attendees to solve. The original prize of a bottle of wine was supplemented by Rufus’s kind donation of a copy of a book of his Guardian crosswords and a very rare copy of Torquemada’s 112 Best Crossword Puzzles with Portrait & Memoirs, published in 1942.… Continue reading
NTSPP – 073 (Comments)
Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 073
A Puzzle by Gazza
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week Gazza makes his long awaited return with a very enjoyable puzzle.
DT 26594 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26594 (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 590
Toughie No 590 by Osmosis
In the Can!
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from the Calder Valley. Thanks to BD for helping out last Friday when my hospital appointment got messy. I managed to make the Crossword Meet at Birmingham the following day and it was a joy to meet up with Rufus and Eric Westbrook, as well as the other setters and solvers. Thanks to Anax for a grand day and there are some great pictures around especially those taken by Jane Teather. I’m not a fan of pictures of myself, but this is quite a decent one of me wrestling with the Anax special puzzle!
ST 2594
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2594
A full review by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
If you solve your cryptics in the newspaper or were able to convince the Telegraph Puzzles website to cooperate, then like me you had a lovely treat of a crossword from Virgilius again this week. The top half went in quite quickly but the bottom half was another story, particularly the SW corner where I was held up by several of the craftier clues. As to my favourite clues – as Brucie might say ‘they’re nearly all my favourites’!!
DT 26593
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26593
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
We have a fairly straightforward but entertaining puzzle from Giovanni today. Let us know how you got on with it.
To reveal an answer drag your cursor through the space between the brackets under the clue.
DT 26588
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26588
A full review by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Morning All!. It was fun to provide the hints on the day and my solving time put this into the 3-star territory although a few clues caused some discussion on the day so it may have been harder for some. Reviewing the puzzle a few days later I realized that there were loads of clues here which I found to be well constructed and have given it four stars for enjoyment.