Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26935
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Its a bit like musical chairs this week, Gazza is taking a few well earned days off, and I have stepped in to cover for him. Its always a pleasure to blog Giovanni, dissecting the word play makes you realise just how good a setter he is. This is an entertaining puzzle thats not overly difficult. The three long anagrams provide good access to the puzzle if you manage to crack them early.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26930
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Cephas returned with a nice Saturday prize pangram with an enjoyable mix of clues, including his favourite anagrams; the clue at 3d being, for me, the main reason why the puzzle was slightly trickier than usual.
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Toughie No 817 by Dada
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
A very nice puzzle even though it was not very difficult and caused no significant problems.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2649
A full review by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
I had time to solve this before setting out for Manchester on 22nd July, but not enough time to write the hints so many thanks to Crypticsue for helping out. The really great thing about reviewing the Sunday puzzle is that you get a chance to savour it all over again, and this one is no exception.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26934
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja. No, it’s not Wednesday! Yesterday was Falcon’s turn but we’ve also had a bit of a reorganisation and in future I’ll be blogging the Thursday puzzles as my regular slot. So, it’s a big thankyou and goodbye from me to Jay and hello to RayT and the other Thursday tormentors!
I think this must be a RayT as it has a fair bit of innuendo and a couple of Queens. Not too difficult but very enjoyable IMHO. I’ve no doubt that there will be howls of protest from some quarters about the 2* difficulty rating but I rate as I find, so 2* it is!
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Toughie No 816 by Giovanni
The Age of Reason
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Even with a couple of scientific words which were new to me this is not a terribly difficult Toughie, but it does have some really good clues and I enjoyed it.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26933
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** / *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa where it looks like the drought will be interrupted by a few rainy days. At least, the farmers will be happy – although it may be too little, too late. Today’s puzzle has a good mixture of clue types with varying levels of difficulty – a few easy ones to get you started and a few challenging ones to make you think.
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