Toughie No 1023 by Elkamere
Come, Friendly Bombs …
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
We have a very enjoyable mid-week Toughie from Elkamere today with a good supply of his usual well-disguised wordplay. I’m not sure that I’ve fully understood 22a so any better explanations are welcome.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27244
Hints and tips by scchua
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BD Rating – Difficulty *+*/2 – Enjoyment ***
This was marginally more difficult than last week’s, but I’d still give it a 1.5*/3* for difficulty/enjoyment. Thanks to Jay.
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Toughie No 1022 by Warbler
Makin’ Whoopee
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Warbler gives us an easy but, as ever, enjoyable start to the Toughie week.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27243
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from Bellingham in Northumberland, where we’re sending a few days in the caravan, enjoying the sunshine between the torrential downpours. The broadband connection here is glacially slow, so no pictures or videos this week.
This puzzle took me a little longer than I expected, with 12a being last in. But once I’d finished I wondered why it had taken so long…
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27242
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
Another entertaining (if not overly difficult) romp today.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2702 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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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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NTSPP – 181
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27241 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Crossword Club
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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 1020 by Elgar
Digging the unches!**
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BD Rating – Difficulty ****/***** – Enjoyment *****
Nice to have a proper Toughie to get the cryptic grey matter working hard – some fluffy ‘ease you in clues’ and some more hob-nailed examples of the art of clue-writing, including possibly the most unhelpful placement of a double unch in the history of the cryptic crossword! Definitely a ‘game of two halves’ as the right hand side was completed first and then the left slowly but surely sorted itself out.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27240
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
We’ve had some good back-page puzzles this week and today we have another enjoyable offering. Do leave a comment telling us how you fared.
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