February 19, 2015 – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

Toughie 1347

Toughie No 1347 by MynoT

Hints and tips by Bufo

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BD Rating – Difficulty **Enjoyment ***

Back to normal this week. I breezed through this and only the time spent sorting out the last two answers (7 down and 18 down) lifted it into the 2-star difficulty zone.… Continue reading

DT 27729

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27729

Hints and tips by pommers

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BD Rating – Difficulty */**Enjoyment ****

Hola from the Vega Baja where it’s a beautiful Spring morning. I think this is probably a RayT production but Her Majesty is AWOL.  All the other signs are there though. No clue of more than eight words, just the right level of innuendo and all single word clues in the Quickie so I’ll stick my neck out and say it is.
I don’t think it will rattle anyone’s cage as there are six anagrams of eight letters or more so you’ve got loads of checkers on tap. I was just out of one star time, probably because I’m so slow at unravelling anagrams, but it was a very enjoyable solve and it got better as I was writing the review. I will be interested to hear your comments.

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ST 2782

Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2782

A full review by gnomethang

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BD Rating – Difficulty **Enjoyment ****

This puzzle was published on Sunday, 8th February 2015

Morning All!. More than a little thanks to crypticsue for this one due to work commitments! From memory this was a pretty quick solve but there were some lovely clues including the simple yet devillish 11a. Continue reading “ST 2782”