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DT 26364

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26364

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BD Rating – Difficulty ***Enjoyment ***

This is the second occasion that I’ve had the honour to sit in the reviewer’s chair, so I am still a bit of a rookie – at least in this forum. Interestingly, the previous puzzle that I reviewed was DT 26346 and when Big Dave sent me DT 26364 this time, I had to do a double check to make sure I was working on the correct one.

Overall, I would say that this is a typical puzzle in terms of both difficulty and enjoyment. After quickly finding a starting point and making rapid progress through about half the puzzle, I felt that it would likely rate two stars for difficulty. However, the remainder of the puzzle proved more challenging and caused me to up my rating to three stars.

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DT 26346

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26346

Hints and tips by Falcon

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BD Rating – Difficulty **Enjoyment ***

Welcome to the Wednesday blog. Before getting down to business, let me give you a brief background about myself.  I am a retired engineer living in Ottawa, Canada as well as a relative newcomer to cryptic crosswords, having taken up the pastime (to which I quickly became addicted) only a couple of years ago, following my retirement.  However, I do have a fairly solid foundation, having been a longtime solver of regular crossword puzzles.  Furthermore, my training has been greatly accelerated by closely following a number of British cryptic crossword sites, in particular, this one.

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