Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30132
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where ghosts and goblins will be prowling the streets tonight. Happy Halloween to all who will be celebrating the ghoulish festivities.
Apart from being Halloween, this also happens to be one of the semi-annual time transitions when the time differential between Ottawa and the UK shrinks to four hours — meaning a delayed bedtime for me.… Continue reading
A Puzzle by Coot
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Continue reading “Rookie Corner 447”
Sunday Toughie 40 by Robyn (Hints)
Hints and Tips by Gazza
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SJB feared that he might be rather under the weather today after the jollifications in York so I’m standing in for him with the Toughie hints. That’s no chore at all for me because Robyn is amongst my favourite setters and he’s given us a typically witty puzzle.… Continue reading
Enigmatic Variations 1563 (Hints)
Belief Systems by Serpent
Hints and tips by Phibs
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I gather that our setter’s alias derives from the name of the block cipher (cryptographic algorithm) which came second in the contest to establish the Advanced Encryption Standard. Why not choose the name of the winner? Well, Rijndael doesn’t quite have the same ring about it, and anyway Serpent was arguably the hardest of the lot to crack – let’s hope that cracking this puzzle isn’t quite so tough…
Continue reading “EV 1563 Hints”
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3184 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where on Monday with 30mm plus of, thankfully, rainfall from our first Colorado Low of this Autumn/Winter season, and with two months of the year left, 2022 became the wettest year on record with a total, so far, of 740mm.… Continue reading
S&B 2022: “Starred Connections” by Elgar
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Continue reading “NTSPP 664”
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30131 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club (hosted by crypticsue)
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Good morning from an unseasonably warm autumn day here in East Kent. Continue reading “DT 30131 (hints)”
Toughie No 2948 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Some things I didn’t know, but all fairly clued of course. I found some of this hard but there are quite a few easier clues sprinkled about the grid.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30130
Hints and tips by Senf
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BD Rating – Difficulty ****/***** – Enjoyment ***
A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg.
As he was on Toughie duty yesterday this is unlikely to be a Silvanus production; it can happen, we did have him for Thursday Toughie/Friday back pager 6 weeks ago but, according to the myth, lightning never strikes in the same place twice. … Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30125
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 22nd Oct 2022
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. As usual, a friendly and straightforward Saturday puzzle from Cephas that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a review of the same for your kind reading and significant feedback.… Continue reading