Toughie No 956 by MynoT
Nothing to write home about
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
I thought this MynoT Toughie was a bit dull, but maybe it’s just me.
Day: 4 April 2013
DT 27143
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27143
Engaging Pencil before Brain
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from the Calder Valley! I’m helping BD out today as his Toughie blogger is not around. We have a pleasant offering from Ray T (I thought it was Petitjean because of the pop references!). Nothing too taxing, although I hadn’t heard of the alternative spellings of 4 down and 5 across, which I had only seen in the Bible in that form. I wonder how many of you have an answer at 7 down which is actually correct. I had an answer in there which when I came to parse it, I couldn’t and realised with a prod from BD, that I was wrong. A good example of answering without thinking fully.
ST 2684
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2684
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Virgilius with his slightly trickier hat on – but oh what fun! As I work my way through a puzzle, I put dots by the clues I like, and the down clues in particular looked like they were suffering from an outbreak of measles!