Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3275 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg – the Prairie Summer weather ‘mix’ continues although I think I heard mention of below seasonal temperatures in the weather forecast.
For me, and I stress for me, Dada reasonably friendly although his personal thesaurus may have been his preferred choice for some clues – two long ‘uns, eight anagrams (three partials), one lurker, and one homophone all in a slightly asymmetric 30 clues; with 15 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues. … Continue reading
A Puzzle by Madcap
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30677 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club (hosted by crypticsue)
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Toughie No 3312 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
When Elgar sets a Friday Toughie, you get exactly what it says on the tin. The usual stretching of the cryptic grey matter followed by a lot of smiles as I worked out exactly what was going on in the clues
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30671
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 20th July 2024
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Kolkata.… Continue reading
Toughie No 3311 by Beam
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
A pretty straightforward puzzle from Beam – thanks to him.
As I may have said before there’s little difference in difficulty (apart from the absence of anagrams in the latter) between Ray T’s back-pagers and Beam’s Toughies. Beam’s self-imposed restriction on the length of his clues does make it rather difficult to incorporate complex wordplay.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30675
Hints and tips by Shabbo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
After yesterday’s somewhat quirky and controversial puzzle (which I quite enjoyed, incidentally), it was back to normal with a proper Thursday puzzle. … Continue reading
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Upwardly Mobile by Luxor
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Toughie No 3310 by Hudson
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ****
I was delighted to find that today’s Toughie was by one of my favourite setters but I wasn’t expecting it to be quite this tricky. … Continue reading