Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31272
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from my lakeside retreat near Ottawa where an overcast, rainy Saturday gave way to a warm, sunny Sunday.
Today we have the expected introductory gentle warmup to ease us into this week’s slate of puzzles.
I must give a shout out to Senf who came to my rescue on the Quickie pun. I discover I have been mispronouncing the answer my entire lifetime.
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A Puzzle by Tater
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Sunday Toughie No 230
by Silvanus
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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For Silvanus’s third Sunday Toughie (# tooth hurty) I may have expected a dental reference or even a reference to the summer solstice, which passed as I slept on the parsing.
I think the slightly niche British TV references should be widely enough known to those overseas.
14a and 16d clues today and I have hinted half. I hope you find the checkers to finish, but I will nudge if required and able.
Here we go, Folks…
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Enigmatic Variations 1752 (Hints)
Double Crests by Luxor
Hints and tips by Phibs
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After Claude’s problems with the primates of EV 1750, I gave him a chance to redeem himself, asking, “In a themed crossword puzzle, we are told that we must find the title of a work featuring ‘double crests’ and the name of the series of which it is part. Can you suggest what the work/series might be?”
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3374 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg on this day of the Summer Solstice for which I timed the publishing of the blog to be the exact time, 9:24am BST, of the Solstice, although WordPress and the Internet in general may have ‘interfered’ with that by a minute or two. Anyway, from here, it’s all downhill to fog, ice, frost, rain, snow, and heaven knows what else!
For me, and I stress for me,© thankfully, after the brain mangling from the NTSPP, a very pleasant Dim Sum lunch and an afternoon nap put me in the right frame of mind for Dada being quite friendly with extreme quirkiness. A puzzle of two halves split diagonally, four long ‘uns, back up to eight anagrams (four partials, one reversed), one lurker, but no homophones, all in an economically symmetric 28 clues; with 14 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid you should/might be able to get some of the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues. I hope you have your Crimson Tomes at hand!
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A Puzzle by Maitresse
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31271 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club
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Toughie No 3708 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
There are a couple of unusual words here and some synonyms requiring a bit of thought but all were very fairly clued. Thanks to Sparks for the pangram.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31265
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 13th June 2026
BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. A nice and straightforward Saturday puzzle from Twmbarlwm that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a review of the same for your kind perusal and significant feedback. Continue reading “DT 31265 (Full Review)”
