Toughie No 828 by Elkamere
‘ighly ‘umorous
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
We may have the reason why MynoT’s ‘G Spot’ puzzle was scheduled yesterday in this very entertaining Elkamere offering, because this one features the next letter in the alphabet. If you haven’t noticed just run your eye down the outer columns of the grid (as hinted at in 5d). At the time of posting the Telegraph on-line site is showing Elkamere as being tomorrow’s setter as well, so I wonder if that will be ‘I-spy’ day (or it could just be an error!). [Update: Elkamere has now been removed as tomorrow’s setter so it probably was an error]
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26951
Hints and tips by scchua
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I found this reasonably easy, difficulty of 2*, thankfully, as I’ve yet another blog to do today; and enjoyment at 2.5*. My favourites were 16a, the it’s-not-what-you-think 13a, and 13d. Thank you to setter.
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Toughie No 827 by MynoT
Return of the Grockle!
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment **
Back in February Gazza posed the question “What Happened to Grockle, Heckle and Jekyll?” when MynoT skipped a few consonants. Well here’s the answer – the grockle was on holiday. Another yawn of a puzzle – knowing that there is a particular consonant in every answer takes most of the fun away from solving.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26950
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
These days I normally do enough of the Quick Crossword to work out the pun before I tackle the back-pager and today’s pun certainly put me in a good mood for this one. There aren’t any great difficulties here but it was enjoyable and (possibly influenced a bit by the excellent Quickie pun) I’ve given it 4* for enjoyment.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26949
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Normal service has been resumed for me today, and we have a fairly typical, although slightly more challenging Rufus crossword to contend with. I particularly liked 19a, which was the last one in and raised a smile as I twigged the answer.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2653 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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Congratulations to Slartibartfast, the winner of our third Monthly Prize Puzzle.
As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the more difficult clues and provide hints for them.
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Monthly Prize Puzzle No 3 (August 2012) by Prolixic
In association with Hamlyn Books,
the publishers of Telegraph Crossword Books
A review by crypticsue
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Congratulations to Slartibartfast who is the winner of our third Monthly Prize Puzzle. Slartibartfast’s name was randomly selected from the correct entries received by Mrs BD and can now choose any two of The Telegraph All New Cryptic Crosswords Books or The Telegraph All New Toughie Crossword Books. This month there is a special additional prize – a copy of A Display of Lights (9) by former Telegraph Crossword Editor Val Gilbert, kindly donated by Tilsit.
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 132
A Puzzle by eXternal
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26948 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Crossword Club
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Today is your last chance to enter our third Monthly Prize puzzle – entries close at midnight
As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.
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Toughie No 826 by Notabilis
Operation Underline
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment *****
Tilsit is on holiday somewhere in the Lake District leaving me to review this excellent puzzle from Notabilis.
Following the success of underlining the definitions, introduced by Scchua on Wednesday, I have decided to try it out myself. All definitions in the clues have been underlined, and omitted from the hints unless further explanation has been added.
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