Month: March 2024
Toughie 3242
Toughie No 3242 by Serpent
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
DT 30572
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30572
Hints and tips by 2Kiwis
BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
Everything is very dry here and has been so for the last couple of months. This morning we set out for our usual walk feeling quite confident that the few clouds about would either dissipate or move away from our vicinity.… Continue reading
Sunday Toughie 112 (Review)
Sunday Toughie No 112 by proXimal
Review by Sloop John Bee
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This puzzle was published on the 17th of March 2024
ST 3256 (full review)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3256
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 17th Mar 2024
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata.… Continue reading
Toughie 3241
Toughie No 3241 by Dada
Hints and tips by ALP
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
I’ve just been tutted in the street. Tutted!… Continue reading
DT 30571
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30571
Hints and tips by Huntsman
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** Enjoyment ***/****
Nice & sunny here in Harpenden at present but wet stuff on the way unfortunately & not sure if I’ll manage to get out for a walk before it arrives.… Continue reading
DT 30570
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30570
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where Mother Nature continues to be in a frolicsome mood.… Continue reading
Rookie Corner 519
Sunday Toughie 113 (Hints)
Sunday Toughie No 113
by Zandio
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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Zandio has brought us a Toughie that, although it took me a while before I got a foothold (26a was my first one in), I concentrated on the south but sped up as I moved northwards. Zandio was very generous with his definitions today, a triple nay quadruple definition in 9/12a and two more double definitions. There are lots of lurkers forwards and backwards and cryptic reversals too.
We have 14a and 16d clues today and I will hint half I hope you find the checkers to get over the line, if any tricky ones have hit the cutting room floor don’t be 11a and I will try to help without incurring the Naughty Step
You have had quite a bit of my favoured music recently both last week and yesterday so I have tried to pick music of a slightly different flavour today
Here we go…