Sunday Toughie No 27 by Robyn
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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The crossword wasn’t too difficult by Sunday Toughie standards, As I was awaiting the midnight publication of today’s toughie I fell asleep with a wee 8d at hand. I awoke with a start and made a meal of dealing with network and printer problems into the small hours. Thankfully when I was able to access the puzzle it wasn’t too difficult, either that or my crossword skills have come on leaps and bounds over the last 27 weeks.
I may have detected a slight theme as I have quite a few answers with a Sci-Fi / Space theme but I may have been led astray by the Twitter meme that today is the actual birthdate of George Jetson.

Anyway here we go with an evenly split 14a/14d clues, exactly half of which I have hinted.
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Enigmatic Variations 1550 (Hints)
Elementary Solutions by A FEW
Hints and tips by Phibs
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The culmination of a month of puzzles that put the ‘eco’ into recondite decoding features a preamble and four preamblets, and is surely the work of a consortium.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3171 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where we are enjoying a three day holiday weekend, quite what the reason is I am not absolutely certain but I’ll take it anyway.… Continue reading
A Puzzle by Jaffa
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30053 Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club (hosted by crypticsue)
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Tilsit is away in Germany and so I’m providing a few hints for what, given that it is a pangram, with lots of anagrams, must be the work of Cephas
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Toughie No 2896 by Elgar
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Wow. I know Elgar won’t use this grid lightly.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30052
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs on another dry day, the sun peering through some high cloud.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30047
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 23rd July 2022
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata.… Continue reading
Toughie No 2895 by Beam
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
This was definitely at the easier end of Beam’s range and, apart from the absence of anagrams, could well have appeared as a Ray T production.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30051
Hints and tips by Miffypops
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Rating as suggested by NAS – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good day. Solvers wasting the worlds resources of graphite and ink will waste less today with only a measly twenty-six clues to solve. Rather easy for a Thursday methinks. A Mrs Trellis of North Wales commented on my last blog, Continue reading “DT 30051”