Month: April 2023
Toughie 3050
Toughie No 3050 by Giovanni
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty **** – Enjoyment **
DT 30284
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30284
Hints and tips by 2Kiwis
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
About an hour before writing this we had a bit of earthquake excitement. A swarm of shakes happened on the east coast (we’re on the west coast) of the North Island.… Continue reading
Sunday Toughie 64 (Review)
Sunday Toughie No 64 by Zandio
Review by Sloop John Bee
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This puzzle was published on the 16th of April 2023
ST 3208 (Full Review)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3208
A full review by crypticsue
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This puzzle was published on 16th April 2023
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Dada provided a mix of the old friend and the ‘shouldn’t this clue be in a Toughie?’ but I ended up in my ‘usual’ time for a Sunday Prize Puzzle Continue reading “ST 3208 (Full Review)”
Toughie No 3049
Toughie No 3049 by Gila
Hints and tips by StephenL
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***/****
Hello everyone from a blue skies South Devon coast.
DT 30283
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30283
Hints and tips by Twmbarlwm
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***/****
Good morning. A fairly brisk solve with perhaps a greater proportion of straightforward clues than we usually see on a Tuesday, but plenty of well-disguised deception and clever exploitation of multiple meanings to keep us on our guard. Continue reading “DT 30283”
DT 30282
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30282
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where we have been enjoying a spell of warm, sunny weather.… Continue reading
Rookie Corner 472
Sunday Toughie 65 (Hints)
Sunday Toughie No 65 by proXimal
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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A lot of London and numerous routes today, most of which are on the route of today’s London Marathon. I wonder if proXimal is taking part or attending some musical theatre at 2d
Some great penny drops today most of which involve water in some form, meres, pools and plumbing revealed themselves with a clang
An evenly balanced 14a 14d clues today and I couldn’t help but hint (just) over half of them. I hope you find the checkers to solve the rest as I have had to leave some clues that I found quite difficult unhinted
Here we go, Folks…