Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29868
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja where the weather forecast is for a temperature of 24°C this afternoon! If it happens it would be some sort of record for Christmas week. Hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas and here’s hoping that 2022 turns out to be an improvement on 2021 – a Happy New Year to you all.
As for the crossword I’ll just repeat what I wrote last week – elegant clues, not too hard but a couple to cause some head scratching. I enjoyed it a lot and hope you did too.
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A Christmas crossword (oh, no it isn’t!) by Khatru
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Enigmatic Variations 1519 (Hints)
Satisfaction 2 by proXimal
Hints and tips by The Numpties
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For the last EV of the year we meet proXimal, the EV editor, again.… Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3140 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
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A very good Boxing Day morning from Winnipeg from where I trust that you have awoken from your tryptophan induced slumbers bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to take on Dada’s latest challenge.… Continue reading
Telegraph Double Toughie No 100013
All Dried Up by Elgar
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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Daily Telegraph Christmas Day Cryptic No 100013
A full review by Tilsit
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Merry Christmas to everyone!
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Gifted by Phibs
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Toughie No 2772 by Artix
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Some lovely clues. Took a while to get started though reasonably smooth afterwards.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29867
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***

Good morning from South Staffs on a foggy Christmas Eve.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29862
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 18th Dec 2021
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. A slightly tougher Saturday puzzle from Cephas that I still enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a review of the same for your kind perusal and noteworthy comment.
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