Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2749 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a number of the more difficult clues and provide hints for them.
Month: June 2014
NTSPP – 228
DT 27522 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27522 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Crossword Club
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Today is your last chance to enter for this month’s Prize Puzzle.
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.
Toughie 1209
Toughie No 1209 by Firefly
A Grump writes…..
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from the AAU at Calderdale Hospital. Trying to write today’s blog while having a top-up of antibiotics. However the good folk at Microsoft deemed that if you have the latest version of their product, Office 365, you have to be online to use it! It won’t even let you cut and paste from your template into WordPad. So I have written the explanations into WordPad in the hope a Very Nice Man can transfer them when I manage to find a wifi connection. [I couldn’t find a Very Nice Man so I had to do it myself. BD]
Enough of my rantings about Mr Gates, time to rant about the puzzle. It’s what I would describe as a typical Firefly with some clues to make you smile and one or two that make you wince slightly as they are almost too clever for their own good. One or two of the cryptic definitions here don’t quite hit the mark for me.
DT 27521
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27521
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Deep Threat is unavailable this morning so I’m making a temporary return to my old stamping ground. I really enjoyed Giovanni’s puzzle today but I thought it was above average in terms of difficulty so I’ve given it four stars. Do you agree or disagree?
Continue reading “DT 27521”
DT 27516
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27516
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was published on Saturday, 14th June 2014
A slightly trickier prize puzzle from Cephas this week. My favourite was the nicely defined and well-hidden 8d.
Toughie 1208
Toughie No 1208 by proXimal
Phew!
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
This is the first time I have been exposed to a proXimal Toughie and I struggled throughout. I only got one answer on my first read-through of the clues but this gave me a toehold in the SE corner from which I managed to fill the left-hand side of the grid without too many problems. I then stalled completely on the left-had side and I had to tease out just about every answer. It was definitely my slowest solve of a Toughie for a long, long time. I’m not sure why I found it so difficult because all the clues are perfectly fair and I didn’t have to do much head scratching to untangle the wordplay. I’ll be interested to know how the rest of you fared so I can see if it was just me who couldn’t get on proXimal’s wavelength.
DT 27520
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27520
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hola from the Vega Baja. I quite enjoyed this puzzle but I know some of you will disagree. There seems to be more than the usual fiddling about with first and/or last letters and bits of words and a few slightly obscure meanings of words. Still, a pleasant accompaniment to the morning cuppa.
ST 2747
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2747
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was published on Sunday, 8th June 2014
Morning All!. There were a couple of sticklers that I kicked myself after solving but the usual excellence shines through because of that fact!
Toughie 1207
Toughie No 1207 by Elkamere
Dulce et Decorum Est …
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
This took me some time and when I’d finished I wasn’t quite sure why. I managed to drag the name of the footballer up from the dark recesses but I imagine he’ll be unknown to many. There are some really good clues here so thanks to Elkamere for the challenge.