NTSPP – 519
A Puzzle by Jaffa
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Month: January 2020
DT 29263 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29263 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club
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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 2369
Toughie No 2369 by proXimal
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
A very worthy Friday toughie. I’m in a bit of a rush today.… Continue reading
DT 29262
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29262
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs, where the sun is visible as I write, which makes a pleasant change.… Continue reading
DT 29257
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29257
A full review by gnomethang
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This puzzle was published on 11th January 2020
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! Quite a solid puzzle I thought for a Saturday. There were a few easy starter clues and a few that took a bit of unravelling..
Please leave a comment telling us what you thought.
Toughie 2368
Toughie No 2368
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
A typical Ray T puzzle which just crept over the border into Toughie time, I’ve added half a star to the difficulty time to allow for a couple of bits of tricky parsing, not to mention the fact that I did have to do a bit of dictionary synonym checking while producing the blog. … Continue reading
DT 29261
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29261
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja where it’s a bit chilly but bright and sunny but with rain forecast for the weekend. I’m a bit twitchy about rain at the moment so I hope it’s not of biblical proportions!
I don’t know who today’s setter is apart from I’d venture it isn’t proXimal. It certainly didn’t frighten the horses and I was going to go for just * difficulty after I got seven acrosses and then fourteen downs on first pass. However a couple of the rest held out a bit so ** it is for me. There are five reasonably lengthy anagrams to give a lot of checkers so I don’t expect many of you will have had much trouble. Continue reading “DT 29261”
ST 3037
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3037
A full review by gnomethang
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This puzzle was published on 5th January 2020
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! Quite a tricky one I thought and I threw 6d in without a clue as to the parsing. Continue reading “ST 3037”
Toughie 2367
Toughie No 2367 by Serpent
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment **
In some ways I was quite pleased to get a gentle puzzle today as I’m recovering from a severe bout of manflu.… Continue reading
DT 29260
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29260
Hints and tips by KiwiColin
BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
Flying solo this week.
A beautiful fine summer day and the extended forecast suggests that it will stay this way for quite some time.… Continue reading