Toughie No 3393 by Chalicea
Hints and tips by ALP
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***/****
Huzzah! I predict total agreement for once. That must be a first.… Continue reading
Month: December 2024
DT 30799
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30799
Hints and tips by Huntsman
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** Enjoyment **/***
A pretty dull & miserable looking morning here in Harpenden but it’s not raining & not cold. I’m off up to Tigh Mor in the Trossachs tomorrow for Christmas so no doubt it’ll be a darn sight colder up there.
I can’t in all honesty say that I’d rank today’s puzzle up there with AP’s best. Perhaps it’s just me but I felt it lacked some of his witty surfaces so it’ll be interesting to see what others thought. It was, as you would expect, precisely clued.
In the following hints, definitions are underlined, indicators are mostly in parentheses, and answers are revealed by clicking where shown as usual. Please leave a comment below on how you got on with the puzzle.
DT 30798
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30798
Hints and tips by Smylers
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Hello, fellow commoners. If the Telegraph crossword is common, then I certainly have no wish to be anything else. How ridiculous anyway, suggesting that you should decide what to put on your pudding not based not on what you’ll enjoy eating most but on how posh or common some others will judge your choice! But at least the article used the term ‘U’, not often encountered these days outside of crosswords, thereby justifying setters’ continued use of ‘posh’ to indicate that letter.
The Daily Telegraph crossword on Mondays is one of the best places to learn how to solve cryptic crosswords. If over the Christmas period you encounter any students who show any inclination towards crosswords, do let them know they can have a free subscription, including Telegraph Puzzles — and of course make sure they know about Big Dave’s Crossword Blog for help with working out what’s going on.
Today’s puzzle is a treat for those who like putting one thing inside another. Do leave a comment saying how you got on with it.
Here in Ilkley this weekend we had the Rudolph’s Run parade of decorated tractors passing through — illuminated farm vehicles as far as the eye could see. (Our household’s resident statistician counted 213 of them go past.)
Rookie Corner 557
Sunday Toughie 151 (Hints)
Sunday Toughie No 151
by proXimal
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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Problems printing last night have delayed this a bit but I liked the trademark proXimalisms and the Star Trek references.
We have 14a and 14d clues and I have hinted half and a few bonus pics. I hope you find the checkers to get over the line
Got to go and keep the shopaholic Mama Bee happy but I will be back by the time this is published.
Here we go, Folks…
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EV 1673 (Hints)
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No Prize by Chalicea
Hints and tips by Phibs
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A search on Dave Hennings’ database at xwdb.info reveals that Chalicea has had 161 puzzles published in the Listener/EV/IQ weekly series and the monthly Crossword/Magpie magazines. A further 18 by her alter ego Curmudgeon take the total up to 179, so I make this number 180, an achievement of truly Phil Taylor-esque proportions.
ST 3295 (Hints)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3295 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where we had snow on Sunday and Tuesday, then it was (the somewhat mythical) too cold for it to snow for three days, minus 25 degrees and below, now it has ‘warmed up’ and snow is in the forecast for today and tomorrow!… Continue reading
NTSPP 775
DT 30797 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30797 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club (hosted by crypticsue)
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