Toughie No 1162 by Petitjean
It doesn’t 5 down!
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment **
A frustrating crossword. I did over half of it with no effort and thought it was going to be a one- or two-star difficulty puzzle. Then I started having problems though for most clues I could see what the answer must be but couldn’t unravel the wordplay. Last week I commented that it was nice not to have any tricky four-letter answers. I wish I could say the same this week. I didn’t particularly enjoy the time spent sorting out the last few answers. Because of this I upped the difficulty rating and lowered the enjoyment rating
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27466
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
Ray T tests our vocabulary like no other setter in this very enjoyable puzzle.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2738
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
This puzzle was published on Sunday, 6th April 2014
Morning All! This was one of my quickest Sunday solves as everything fell into place quite nicely. Still lots of fun to complete and running through the wordplay was a delight as ever.
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