Author: 2Kiwis

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30770

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“Kia ora. Kiwis are normally shy creatures who spend most of the day asleep and come out only at night, but we have emerged, blinking into the light to bring you our very first review of a Wednesday puzzle. It has taken much beak scratching.”

The above is part of the preamble we wrote in September 2014 on our very first BigDave blog. Today, the statistics on our computer tell us that this is our blog number 500 so we have decided that it would be an appropriate time to step aside and return to our underground nest as kiwis do as daylight approaches.
Before we started blogging we used to secretly refer to Big Dave as The Headmaster and the team of bloggers as The Prefects and it was a great honour to be invited into the prefect’s study. We still feel in awe of those amongst us who do so much behind the scenes to keep everything running so smoothly.
We don’t intend to leave the site but to continue to solve puzzles and make comments as we have done for so long but we will be able to use the word ‘Wednesday’ again instead of ‘Blogday’.

Once again we found a few tricky pieces in today’s puzzle to keep us on our toes.

Please leave a comment telling us how you got on.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30758

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Kia ora from Aotearoa.
Spring showers are meant to be nice gentle ones that help all the flowers grow. What we are having lately feel more like icy downpours which create quite a different image.
We found a few stumbling blocks in this one, particularly in the SW quadrant.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30746

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Kia ora from Aotearoa.
More birds from us today. We cannot see into the Welcome Swallows’ nest that we spoke about without disturbing them, but from the feverish activities of the parents and urgent chirping from the nest we assume that there are little nestlings there now. We also admire all the families of ducklings on the ponds we walk past most days. It doesn’t pay to count the number in each clutch as the ponds are also home to some rather hungry eels. It’s often a case of “ten little….nine little……eight little…..etc” but guess that’s life.
Anyway, back to the puzzle. Once again a few tricky bits in this one for us.

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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30734

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Kia ora from Aotearoa.
It has been busy here lately. As well as having a series of miscellaneous health appointments we have had family staying with us.… Continue reading

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30722

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Kia ora from Aotearoa.
Winter must have decided to give us all a parting gift and we have had a cold Southerly blast that has affected most of the country.… Continue reading