Toughie No 3576 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Month: October 2025
DT 31072
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31072
Hints and tips by Mr K
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BD Rating - Difficulty *** - Enjoyment ***
Hello, everyone, and welcome to a solid Friday puzzle. Continue reading "DT 31072"
DT 31067 (Full Review)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31067
A full review by crypticsue
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This puzzle was published on 25th October 2025
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Toughie 3575
Toughie No 3575 by Dharma
Hints and tips by ALP
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BD Rating – Toughie difficulty **+ – Enjoyment ****
Dharma’s back to tickle and tease, with engineered surfaces and fair definitions, as always. Some real graft here. All yours.
DT 31071
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31071
Hints and tips by Shabbo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning, fellow puzzlers and greetings from North Norfolk where we are enjoying our biannual week staying in an apartment overlooking Wells harbour. The weather has been remarkably kind to us, despite a little bit of rain yesterday afternoon.
Today’s plans include completing today’s blog and then a bit of birding at dusk followed by dinner with friends in the Wells Crab House. Any travel to the east will depend on a burst water main on the A149 having been repaired overnight. Fingers crossed. No real surprises on the birding front so far, but a couple of juvenile gannets and a red-breasted merganser at Titchwell on Tuesday are worthy of note.
Today’s puzzle doesn’t feel like Silvanus and it is definitely not RayT, so I will leave “Guess the Setter” in your capable hands, dear reader. I found it to be a bit tricky in parts, but an enjoyable solve. I will go along with the early commenters in making the very amusing 11a my CoD.
In the blog below, the definition element of each clue has been underlined, anagrams are CAPITALISED and the crossword technique “indicator words” are in brackets. The answers are concealed under the “Click Here” buttons. Please leave a comment telling us how you got on and what you thought of the puzzle.
Many thanks to our setter and to the DT Crossword Team.
EV 1717 (Solution)
Toughie 3574
Toughie No 3574 by Hudson
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty * – Enjoyment *****
DT 31070
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31070
Hints and Tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** Enjoyment ****
A very enjoyable midweek puzzle which is good fun – thanks to our setter.
Continue reading “DT 31070”
Sunday Toughie 195 (Review)
Sunday Toughie No 195 by Zandio
Review by
Sloop John Bee
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This puzzle was published on the 19th October 2025
ST 3339 (Full Review)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3339
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 19th October 2025
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Kolkata. A straightforward and gentle puzzle from Dada this Sunday that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a full review of his puzzle for your kind perusal and valuable feedback. Continue reading “ST 3339 (Full Review)”