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!
Remember that Reading the Hints before commenting can be beneficial!
If it is some time since you read, or if you have never read the instructions in RED below the hints then please consider doing so before commenting today as my electronic blue pencil is at the ready and the Naughty Step is OPEN!
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