Toughie No 1137 by Elkamere
Drowning by Numbers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *
I’m sure this was a very difficult puzzle to put together, but for someone with my lack of interest in films it was totally wasted. If it hadn’t been for Google, I would never have finished it, and if I hadn’t been reviewing it, having seen the word film a dozen times, I wouldn’t have started it. The Telegraph usually avoid themed puzzles, a policy that I wish they had stuck to today.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27413
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs on a grey morning, with another downpour forecast.
I found this morning’s puzzle from Giovanni to be remarkably straightforward, possibly aided by the frequent appearances of items from Big Dave’s Usual Suspects page.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27408
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I spent last Saturday afternoon in a nice pub in Bristol with my fellow bloggers telling me that ‘today’s puzzle wouldn’t take me long’. Trouble was I had to wait until the evening to solve it as I didn’t see it until I got back to the paper waiting for me at my brother’s house – the promised morning print-out having been swallowed by Gnomey’s printer. ‘They’ were right! I found it a slightly different Cephas crossword this week – there seemed to be more cryptic definitions than his usual sprinkling of anagrams
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Toughie No 1136 by Dada
I didn’t get 1 across!
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I had no problems until I was delayed for a while by two answers in the NE corner. There’s one clue that someone will have to explain to me.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27412
Hints and tips by archy and mehitabel
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning everyone, it’s the cockroach and the alley cat again. Well, mehitabel enjoyed it so much last week she couldn’t turn down archy’s invitation to have another go!
A pleasant enough puzzle I thought with a couple of clues that are a bit complicated to parse although easy enough to guess the answers. Perhaps a bit heavy on charades and certainly light on anagrams!
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2729
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Lovely stuff as usual on a Sunday morning. My top favourites were 10a and 14a. If I had one slight quibble, it would be that I did have to type anagram quite a lot in this review.
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Toughie No 1135 by Sparks
Grey-We(a)ther?
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Thanks to Sparks for a very enjoyable Toughie which, for me, was a bit less tricky than yesterday’s. I didn’t know what grey-wether was but it certainly sounds like what we’re getting throughout the south of the UK at the moment. Your views, as always, are more than welcome.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27411
Hints and tips by Tilsit
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Scchua is away this week.
Greetings from Huddersfield Infirmary! I’m currently resident here after surgery yesterday and although feeling a bit grotty, have a large stock of crosswords and reading material to keep me amused.
Today’s offering from Jay was a nice pleasant stroll and wasn’t particularly overtaxing, probably what I need. It seemed to have a number of what I term ‘swap’ clues where part of an answer needs to have something replaced by an abbreviation or similar, as well as a fair few word sums, making it a nice test for someone getting into cryptics.
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Toughie No 1134 by Beam
Quadruplic-ate!
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
I thought that a number of the clues in this puzzle were awkwardly but fairly constructed, which accounted for the difficulty level.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27410
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I thought that this was a bit trickier that what we normally get on Tuesdays (and none the worse for that). Do let us know whether you agree or whether you’ve labelled it a piece of cake.
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