December 26, 2022 – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

DT 30180

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30180

Hints and tips by pommers

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Hola from the Vega Baja.  You may remember I said last Monday that I was off to Benidorm for Christmas and that’s where I am.  Chris Lancaster sent me an advance copy of today’s puzzle so I actually wrote this blog last Thursday!  He sent me the puzzle from today’s paper but I’d rather he’d sent me the football results!!!

A fairly benign puzzle today from Campbell but 19a nearly had me beat. Never heard of it and it took about ten minutes of Googling to get an answer! There’s eight clues involving anagrams and two lurkers so you should get off to a good start. I’ll be interested to see what you all make of 19a.
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