Toughie No 815 by Warbler
Word for word
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Warbler consistently serves up enjoyable but solvable puzzles – here’s another.
Day: 31 July 2012
DT 26932
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26932
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment **
If you like long anagrams then you’ll like this puzzle because it has three of them. It also has two different types of duck (three if you count the cricket variety). The surface readings in a lot of the clues are not terribly smooth and I think that this detracts from the overall enjoyment. Let us know how you got on and how you liked it.
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