Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30864
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where a brief spell of temperatures hovering around the freezing point has been superseded by temperatures in the negative mid-teens (Celsius).
Until proven wrong, I will attribute this very enjoyable puzzle to Robyn. After the appearance of a second pun at the end the Quickie two weeks ago, I was on the lookout today for evidence of a revival of this Campbell practice. I thought for a moment there might be one present today, but discarded the notion when I realized that one of the words from the grid would simply be used ‘as is’ in the resulting pun. So, although there is sort of a partial pun, I don’t consider it to be a true pun.
Look closely and you may find a clue somewhere in the blog revealing what I will be doing today.
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