Month: December 2023
Toughie 3186
Toughie No 3186 by Robyn
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
DT 30488
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30488
Hints and tips by 2Kiwis
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
As this will be our last blog before Christmas we would like to wish everyone all the best for the festive season which we know many of you, like us, will be spending with family and friends.… Continue reading
Sunday Toughie 98 (Review)
Sunday Toughie No 98 by proXimal
Review by Sloop John Bee
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This puzzle was published on the 10th of December 2023
ST 3242 (full review)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3242
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 10th Dec 2023
BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Kolkata.… Continue reading
Toughie No 3185
Toughie No 3185 by Serpent
Hints and tips by StephenL
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****/*****
Hello everyone from a very wet South Devon coast
DT 30487
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30,487
Hints and tips by Huntsman
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/***– Enjoyment **/***
Hosing it down here in Harpenden after a few days of welcome respite for the golf courses.… Continue reading
DT 30486
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30486
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty * / ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where we are experiencing a very mild lead-up to the holiday season with barely enough snow on the ground to notice.… Continue reading
Rookie Corner 505
Sunday Toughie 99 (Hints)
Sunday Toughie No 99
by Zandio
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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Zandio returns from his brief hiatus with a fine Sunday Toughie. a good mix of anagrams, reverse anagrams, lurkers and &lits and I have hinted at half of an even 14a and 14d clues
I still haven’t heard who or what we are getting in Sunday Toughie 100 on Christmas Eve, I have used up two of my Christmassy songs today I will have to find some more for then, in the meantime here is one of my favourite dogs from the interwebs on a steady winter walk near Lochnagar
Here we go…