Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27826
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from Camping La Garangeoire, in the Vendée region of France.… Continue reading
Month: June 2015
DT 27821
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27821
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was published on Saturday, 6th June 2015
As a fellow blogger, it is always interesting to look at Falcon’s National Post Cryptic Forum [use the Links tab above to take you to http://natpostcryptic.blogspot.co.uk/] and see whether our views on particular crosswords coincide. The National Post is currently using DT puzzles from December 2014 so I’ll have to wait about six months to see whether he agrees with me that, once you get going, this crossword doesn’t take long to solve, or whether he found that 15a and 5d were ‘Britishisms’ too far.
Toughie 1411
Toughie No 1411 by Firefly
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
A much more enjoyable puzzle than the last one by Firefly that I blogged.… Continue reading
DT 27825
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27825
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja where it’s just stopped raining! Not 100% certain about the setter of this one. Somehow it didn’t feel like a RayT to me but it’s his turn, all the clues are less than eight words, there are two hidden answers, a “first letters of” clue and three all-in-ones so perhaps it is one of his. Maybe he’ll call in and let us know. Anyway, I found it a tad tricky but very enjoyable.
ST 2798
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2798
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ****
This puzzle was published on Sunday, 31st May 2015
Morning All! I found this one relatively straightforward but as usual there were some wonderful clues here.
Toughie 1410
Toughie No 1410 by Shamus
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This is an enjoyable puzzle which I’d have completed a bit faster if I hadn’t originally put in the wrong answer for 18a, which caused problems on the left-hand side.… Continue reading
DT 27824
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27824
Hints and tips by 2Kiwis
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Cold and windy here so we opted out of our regular walk this morning. A good day to hunker down in front of the fire to solve and blog a Jay puzzle.
A few clues with medical connections, and a few that had us beak scratching a little.
Toughie 1409
Toughie No 1409 by Busman
Easy Peasy
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment **
If you had been waiting at the bus stop for this Busman, then you would have been there since November 2013.… Continue reading
DT 27823
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27823
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This was more of a sprint than a marathon but I enjoyed it and thought it was pretty good for a Tuesday.… Continue reading
Autumn Masterclass (Nov 2015)
Autumn Masterclass
Brighton, Saturday 28 November 2015
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A message from Guardian setter Boatman: