Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27018
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja, where pobbers seebs to have yet adother code id the dose!! Two days of cold and rain haven’t helped.
Thought I’d do the blog tonight as I may be “hors de combat” tomorrow with some serious man-flu! This puzzle was quite a bit of fun I thought and it came as something of a relief after my last attempt at blogging what I described at the time as a recycled Toughie! There’s a nice mix of clue types and nothing too mind-bending.
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Toughie No 872 by Beam
Nudge nudge, wink wink. Say no more.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Beam is on form in the ‘nudge, nudge’ department today with an entertaining but not overly difficult puzzle.
How was it for you?
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27017
Hints and tips by scchua
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BD Rating – Difficulty *+ – Enjoyment ***
A busy morning for me, so glad this was a 1-1.5* in difficulty, and slightly less than 3* for enjoyment. Thanks to setter. Definitions are underlined in the clues. (Pardon me for any errors that might have slipped in due to the rush.)
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Toughie No 871 by Dada
Sweets for my Sweet
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
It’s always a pleasure to have a Dada puzzle on Tuesday, even though this one is not as difficult as those by his Guardian alter-ego.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27016
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment **
I thought that this was a fairly insipid sort of puzzle, but it does have a Nina (see top and bottom lines) which presumably give us the Quickie pun (see below for my thoughts on this pun). Let us know how you got on and how you rated it.
If you want something a bit more stimulating today you’re spoilt for choice. The Toughie is an excellent puzzle by Dada and Alchemi, one of our regular NTSPP setters, makes a well-deserved debut in the Independent.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27015
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Another typical Rufus start to the week, with a sprinkling of topical clues and answers.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2664 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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Why not have a go at our latest monthly 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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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 143
A Puzzle by Wiglaf
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Today I am delighted to introduce a setter making his debut in the NTSPP series. Wiglaf has had puzzles published in Crossword and The Listener and will have an Enigmatic Variations puzzle published later this month. BD
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27014 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Crossword Club
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Our latest monthly puzzle has been published today. Why not have a go?
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 6 (November 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 sixth Monthly Prize Puzzle? The winner will receive their choice of any two of The Telegraph All New Cryptic Crosswords Books or The Telegraph All New Toughie Crossword Books published by Hamlyn.
A review will follow after the closing date (17th November 2012).
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