NTSPP – 200
A Jumbo Puzzle by Hydra
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Month: December 2013
DT 27355 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27355 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Crossword Club
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There’s a new Prize Puzzle available today – I know it’s tough, but that should increase your chances of winning!
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.
Prize Puzzle – December 2013
Monthly Prize Puzzle No 19 (December 2013) by Radler
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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle? The winner will receive their choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books published by Hamlyn.
Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.
A review will follow after the closing date (21st December 2013).
Toughie 1097
Toughie No 1097 by Notabilis
Certainly not a load of 10 across
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
With the exception of the obscure (to me) Korean port in 1 across this was a very enjoyable puzzle.
DT 27354
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27354
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs where the weather is a little quieter than yesterday. I hope all our readers are safe from storm and flood.
Giovanni’s trademark obscure word at 19d sent me to the BRB to checkwhat I’d got from the very fair wordplay, but the rest fell into place and I finished in ** time.
DT 27349
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27349
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! Firstly a massive thank you to Crypticsue who kindly typed up the blog framework for me. We still don’t have access to the online puzzles and hence cannot use the Word macro to render the blog template as normal. I found this pretty straightforward apart from about 3 clues which were easy but I made heavy weather of. Lots of charades in a row (when I came to review) sort of lowered my enjoyment. That was probably just me though.
Toughie 1096
Toughie No 1096 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
This is Sparks’s second Toughie and the first one that I’ve attempted. I made slow but steady progress until I hit a brick wall in the shape of the last clue (27 down). I have finally come up with an answer for it but I’m not convinced by it. I have assigned the stars by considering the puzzle without 27 down. If I were to include 27 down I would add a star to the difficulty and deduct a star from the enjoyment.
ST 2719
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2719
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Morning all!. This was yet another ace Virgilius puzzle. There were a few clues that really took some teasing out (as there should be in a Prize Puzzle) but the rewards upon completion were considerable.
DT 27353
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27353
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
Once again Ray T stretches our minds with this enjoyable puzzle.
Toughie 1095
Toughie No 1095 by Elkamere
Northwest Territory
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
Bearing in mind the tortuous puzzles that Elkamere in his various guises is capable of producing, I thought that this one was definitely on the gentler side. I was helped by having lived for many years in the North-West of England so that the two towns from this area were no problem for me.
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