Toughie No 860 by Elkamere
Ho Ho Ho!
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Today we have the usual witty and very entertaining offering from Elkamere. It’s not as tricky as some puzzles from his alter ego Anax but it’s ideal for a Wednesday and it’s very nearly, but not quite, a pangram.
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I’ve used BD’s new method of hiding the answers today – I hope it works.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26999
Hints and tips by scchua
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Quite straightforward, so a 1.5-2* in difficulty, with a 3* for enjoyment. Thanks to setter. Definitions are underlined in the clues. “[xxx]” denotes a Synonym or equivalent of “xxx”.
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Cruciverbalist Convention (Oct 2012)
in conjunction with the Times Crossword Championship
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| What? |
A Cruciverbalist Convention for crossword setters and blog contributors and readers will take place in London, coinciding with the annual Times Crossword Championship. |
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Toughie No 859 by Cephas
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
A pleasant but untaxing start to the Toughie week.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26998
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I thought that this puzzle was fairly nondescript on the whole (with rather too many anagrams) but was rescued by a few good clues. I’d value your opinions.
If you want to see an answer you need to highlight the gap between the curly brackets under the clue.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26997
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Bonjour from a very soggy solver south of the Loire, we had the sort of rain that the UK has been receiving this summer, some 50+mm yesterday. Anyway at least I now have some sunshine and the crossword to cheer me up.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2661 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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There’s still time to enter this month’s Prize crossword.
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 – 140
A Puzzle by Robi
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Today we have another promising new setter. Robi is a regular contributor to the comments on fifteensquared.net, and some of you may have met him at London S&B meetings. BD
Today he makes his debut in the NTSPP series.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26996 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Crossword Club
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There’s still time to enter this month’s Prize crossword.
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 858 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Tilsit
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from the Calder Valley. Thanks to our lovely double acts for covering while I was incapacitated.
It’s Friday and this week Osmosis is here to taunt and tease us. A pleasant solve with not too much to tax the brain, although there are the usual hallmarks of our setter – unusual indicators of one and two letters, along with elegant and unusual, and occasionally stretchy, definitions.
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