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Toughie No 3500 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
Osmosis has brought his usual bag of tricks to this puzzle which I really enjoyed working through. He’s given us almost (but not quite) a pangram, a pleasing lack of anagrams and pairs of the more unusual letters juxtaposed in the centre of the grid.
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BD Rating - Difficulty *** - Enjoyment *****
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. I thought this puzzle was just brilliant, with the laugh out loud PDM produced by 14d bumping the enjoyment score up to a rare five stars. Thank you, setter! I’m afraid that work commitments meant a another late start to producing hints, and so sadly I had no time to search for suitable pictures. I hope that the commentariat will provide a few. Continue reading "DT 30958"
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This puzzle was published on 14th June 2025
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. A lovely, elegant Saturday puzzle from NYDK that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a review of the same for your kind perusal and important feedback. Continue reading “DT 30953 (Full Review)”