Toughie No 2997 by Donnybrook
Hints and tips by StephenL
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Hello everyone from another crisp but beautifully sunny day here on the South Devon coast.
Month: January 2023
DT 30205
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30205
Hints and tips by Twmbarlwm
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
Good morning. A nice mix of relatively straightforward clues and a few having more complicated wordplay requiring more thought added up to an enjoyable challenge.… Continue reading
DT 30204
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30204
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja on the coldest morning of the year to date. It was a shivering 3°C at 0800 this morning! Hopefully it will warm up a bit after 0930 when the suns gets over our rear wall.
“Today’s puzzle is a typical Monday offering in that it’s very enjoyable and mostly quite benign, but it has a couple of stings in the tail and a bit of GK needed”. That’s what I wrote in the preamble to my last blog and it’s equally relevant today so it may as well stay. I really enjoyed the tussle with this one and look forward to hearing how you got on with it.
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Rookie Corner 459
Sunday Toughie 52 (Hints)
Sunday Toughie No 52 by Robyn
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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Not as tricky as the New Year’s Day Robyn, but lots to like. Very musical today with lots of earworms from The Lone Ranger, Supertramp, Hall and Oates, Elvis and any beat 21a of your choice. Shakespeare gets a couple of look-ins too. I tried to take a pic of my BD 6d without revealing too much but I see I have revealed a crossing letter. They are both hinted so San Fairy Ann.
A balanced 14a and 14d clues today. Half hinted. Hopefully, you will get enough checkers to get the rest, but if you want another nudge just ask.
Here we go…
EV 1574 (Hints)
Enigmatic Variations 1574 (Hints)
Obscurity by Chalicea
Hints and tips by The Numpties
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Solvers can be sure that they will have no difficulty with an EV by Chalicea who invariably sets crosswords packed with thematic material but with relatively gentle clues that adhere fairly strictly to Chambers Dictionary definitions.… Continue reading
ST 3196 (Hints)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3196 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where the un-seasonally warm January continues although more seasonal temperatures are forecast to return in three or four days time.… Continue reading
NTSPP 676
DT 30203 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30203 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club (hosted by crypticsue)
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A bright sunny, thankfully frost-free, Saturday morning brings a, slightly tricky in places, Saturday Prize Puzzle with a palindromic number
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Toughie 2996
Toughie No 2996 by Sparks
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Sparks set the toughest of Toughies, but it is so cold outside, what else were you going to do with your Friday morning? Continue reading “Toughie 2996”