Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26939
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
In case you are confused, I have swapped days with Pommers. Just to further confuse you, Pommers has swapped with Gazza for this week only, so it will be Gazza tomorrow. If you’re still with me, this is a fairly gentle puzzle from Jay, who consistently hits the bull’s-eye with regard to the standard expected of a back-page puzzle, even though it is probably not on the back page today!
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Toughie No 819 by Kcit
Getting tougher!
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Kcit’s puzzles are typically at the easy end of the Toughie scale, but I found this a little harder than usual.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26938
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
Hola from the Vega Baja. Now listen very carefully, I shall say this only once! Libellule usually does Mondays but filled in for Gazza last Friday and so Gazza returned the favour yesterday. Gazza normally does Tuesdays and I now do Thursdays, and I’ve no idea who’s going to do Wednesdays in future, but I can’t do my Thursday slot this week so I’m filling in for Gazza today. (Simples?) I think I might be losing the plot here – what day is it anyway?
Now to the crossword! Didn’t really enjoy this one very much and it didn’t get any better as I wrote the review. Easy enough to solve but not much entertainment value or grins as far as I can see. Be interested to hear your views.
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Sloggers & Betters (Manchester)
Saturday 8th September 2012.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26937
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
Thanks to Libellule for covering for me last Friday. In return I get to blog a typically gentle introduction to the new week from Rufus. I am somewhat critical of some of the double definitions here; I do think that for a double definition to work the two definitions need to have quite distinct meanings and there are a couple in this puzzle (3d and 6d) where there are considerable overlaps. I’d value your views on this or anything else.
If you want to see an answer just highlight the gap between the curly brackets under the clue.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2651 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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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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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 130
A Puzzle by Radler
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26936 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Crossword Club
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There’s a new Monthly Prize crossword today – don’t miss it.
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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Monthly Prize Puzzle No 3 (August 2012) by Prolixic
In association with Hamlyn Books,
the publishers of Telegraph Crossword Books
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Why not have a go at our third Monthly Prize Puzzle? The winner will be able to choose any two of The Telegraph All New Cryptic Crosswords Books or The Telegraph All New Toughie Crossword Books published by Hamlyn, and will also receive a bonus book donated by Tilsit.
A review will follow after the closing date (18th August 2012).
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Toughie No 818 by Osmosis
Shifting into Reverse
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from the Calder Valley and a big thanks to Crypticsue for stepping in and helping me and covering for me over the past couple of weeks. Today’s Friday Fiend is Osmosis and he returns with a suitably difficult puzzle that caused a fair bit of head scratching. The puzzle is full of the usual Osmosis hallmarks, including a reference to his beloved Manchester United.
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