Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 153
A Puzzle by Wiglaf
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Month: January 2013
DT 27073 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27073 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Crossword Club
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There’s still time have a go at our January 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.
Toughie 909
Toughie No 909 by Elkamere
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This pleasant, but not too difficult, puzzle from Elkamere ends a week of pretty easy Toughies. My only problem was a blind spot in resolving the wordplay for 4 across.
DT 27072
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27072
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment **
Giovanni has given us a very gentle workout today, in fact I can’t remember an easier one from him. Let us know how you fared.
DT 27067
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27067
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*– Enjoyment ***
Morning All!. I was enjoying the solve of this puzzle until I hit 8d which is an awful word. To be fair to the setter the checking letters were not promising and probably would have required a rewrite of other clues to avoid.
Toughie 908
Toughie No 908 by Kcit
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
Another gentle puzzle of the standard we have come to expect from Kcit
DT 27071
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27071
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Pommers will be recuperating for the next few weeks, but I bet he’s kicking himself having gifted me a Ray T puzzle. Once again the key is out-of-the-box thinking.
ST 2672
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2672
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment ***
The last Virgilius of 2012 proved to be fairly straightforward – even the 14 letter solutions didn’t take that long to work out.
Toughie 907
Toughie No 907 by Giovanni
My sacred aunt!
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ***/****
There are several words and meanings that I was unaware of today but Giovanni’s wordplay is so precise that my use of the BRB was largely restricted to checking that the word I’d come up with actually exists.
Continue reading “Toughie 907”
DT 27070
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27070
Hints and tips by scchua
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
An easy one today, a 2-2.5*/3* for difficulty/enjoyment. Thanks to setter.