February 28, 2014 – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

DT 27425

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27425

Hints and tips by Deep Threat

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Good morning from South Staffs on a grey drizzly morning, with a possibility of snow later if last night’s forecast is right.

A pangram from Giovanni this week, which I found testing but not as difficult as yesterday’s, though if I added in the time it took to parse 18d it would probably have gone into **** territory.

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DT 27420

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27420

A full review by gnomethang

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Morning All! I’m pretty sure that this is a Cephas production – some good anagram indicators to help with the surface readings and a couple of cryptic definitions that always make you smile (sometimes easy sometimes not!). Overall a quick but fun solve.

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