Puzzles for Sunday 23rd of October
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Today’s puzzles have kindly been provided by Phil McNeill, the Telegraph’s Puzzles Editor.
Month: October 2011
NTSPP – 089 (Review)
Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 089
A Puzzle by Hieroglyph
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Hieroglyph makes a return to the NTSPP with a themed crossword. All of the across clues’ answers relate to the theme of {CHEESE}. The trick with this type of theme is to make the answers easily solvable from the wordplay so that even if the answer is a word of which you have never heard, you can be reasonably confident that you have arrived at the right answer before checking it. Here, I think Hieroglyph has succeeded.
Favourite clues are highlighted in blue.
NTSPP – 089
Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 089
A Puzzle by Hieroglyph
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a tastily themed puzzle by Hieroglyph.
DT 26690 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26690 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club
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Greetings from Calderdale’s finest NHS holiday camp. I have just escaped the Matron for half an hour to return the favour that Big Dave did for me yesterday
It’s Saturday and here’s today’s Prize Puzzle, As usual, no answers and a few hints. A pleasant enough solver from our Mystery Setter (don’t think it’s Cephas) and I don’t think too many will be taxed by it. Have a great weekend and if you do finish this, have a look at the NTSPP puzzle going up in a wee while.
Many thanks to Phil McNeill for providing today’s puzzle, which can be downloaded from the previous post.
Puzzles for Saturday 22nd of October
Puzzles for Saturday 22nd of October
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Today’s puzzles have kindly been provided by Phil McNeill, the Telegraph’s Puzzles Editor.
Toughie 654
Toughie No 654 by Elgar
Parlez-Vous Franglais?
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment *****
Tilsit has been dragged from the drainpipe in which he was hiding after being shot at by NATO warplanes and detained somewhere in the desert, so you’ve got me again! The hardest part of this puzzle was unravelling some of the wordplay, which was not helped by the error in the published clue for 14a/16a.
ST 2610
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2610
A full review by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***/****
This excellent Sunday Virgilius just sneaks into 3* difficulty territory because of the problems I had with why the solution to 6d was what it was (I wasn’t alone!) and the slightly longer solving time, not to mention one application of Tippex! I still can’t make up my mind whether it’s 3* or 4* enjoyment but it was definitely a great start to Sunday morning however many stars it gets.
DT 26689
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26689
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I didn’t think that this was one of Giovanni’s more challenging puzzles, but it may come as a bit of a relief to some after yesterday’s effort. I’ve written this with one eye on the TV – hard luck, Wales (if only they’d remembered to pack their kicking boots!), we’ll have to wait for 2015 now.
If you want to see an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the relevant clue.
DT 26684
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26684
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating –Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
Morning All! This was a very straightforward puzzle, a fact borne out by my solving time. Absolutely nothing wrong with it but I felt there was not too much to stir the chuckle-muscles..
Puzzles for Friday 21st of October
Puzzles for Friday 21st of October
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Today’s puzzles have kindly been provided by Phil McNeill, the Telegraph’s Puzzles Editor.