Toughie No 738 by Myops
Better Late Than Never!
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from the Calder Valley. Sorry for the lateness today, I’ve been at the hospital and only just got home. We have Myops today with a puzzle that wasn’t as ferocious as his last one, but still a stern test, especially if like me you didn’t have access to a dictionary to check one or two things. Lots of anagrams (including compound ones) and clever cryptic definitions feature today. Have to admit I still struggle to get on his wavelength and this probably affects my enjoyment of the puzzle.
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Recent Update to Commenting
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Some of you have been having difficulty leaving comments recently. The following has been posted in the WordPress Help Forum. Please don’t ask why, it’s a mystery to me as well.
*** The Forum post has been updated over ther weekend ***
This site uses a custom domain name (see point 3 below).
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2630
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Afternoon All! Apologies for the tardiness – I got stuck into drawing some floor plans and forgot to schedule the blog! A thoroughly excellent puzzle (again!) from Virgilius and again my puzzle if the week.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26815
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
I’ve given this one four stars for difficulty because I struggled with a couple of clues (specially 6d), not so much to get the answers as to understand the wordplay. Let us know how you fared.
If you want to see an answer just highlight the spaces between the brackets under the clue (if you have a newfangled I-thingy or equivalent then there is some advice on how to reveal the answer in the FAQs).
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26810
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Many thanks as usual to Cephas for another straightforward enjoyable Saturday puzzle. After all the varying levels of difficulty in the weekday puzzles (Toughies included), I quite like a gentle Saturday puzzle. It gives me my daily crossword ‘fix’ and still leaves time for all the other things that have to be crammed into an all-too-short weekend.
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