Toughie No 1823 by Notabilis
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
What we have today is a rare sighting of a Telegraph Toughie crossword that does what it says on the tin. A challenging solve, with plenty of entertainment along the way, requiring a serious amount of thought to both solve the clues and then parse/explain them. There is a nice helpful Nina which assists when trying to decide whether you are on the right lines with your thoughts on a couple of the Across clues.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28443
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hi everyone. As Deep Threat is on hols you’ll just have to put up with me doing a bit of deputising. I have blogged on Friday before but as far as I can see the last one was 27th December 2013 so it’s a fair while since the Don and I locked horns. This was a pretty fine puzzle with no real obscurities and no religious bits so not one to overtax the little grey cells. I enjoyed it and will be interested to hear your views.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28438
A full review by crypticsue
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This puzzle was published on Saturday 27th May
BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
A read and write Saturday puzzle so I bet the postman delivering the competition entries to DT Towers had quite heavy load this week Continue reading “DT 28438”