Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27809
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was published on Saturday, 23rd May 2015
Morning All! Sorry for the short delay. I had a 06:30 start on site yesterday with a 90 mile round trip followed by a grim 190 mile drive to Droitwich from where we hit York tonight then Newcastle tomorrow for some Rugby League. As a result I was falling asleep in the dinner last night. There were some nice tricky clues in this which added to my enjoyment.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27803
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was published on Saturday, 16th May 2015
Morning All! This one barely scraped into two star difficulty. I think I quite enjoyed it at the time!.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2795
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
This puzzle was published on Sunday, 10th May 2015
Morning All! A fine puzzle as we have come to expect on a Sunday. My making heavy weather of it was due to a school reunion the night before.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2794
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/***– Enjoyment ****
This puzzle was published on Sunday, 3rd May 2015
Morning All! This was an absolute gem of a puzzle with many excellent surface readings,
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27785
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was published on Saturday, 25th April 2015
Morning All! THis was slightly trickier than the week before with a few clues that needed unravelling. Overall quite a good puzzle IMHO!.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27779
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty */**– Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was published on Saturday, 18th April 2015
Morning All! There were some very nice surface readings in this puzzle. It would have needed to be harder for me to add another enjoyment star but while it lasted it was fun!
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2791
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
This puzzle was published on Sunday, 12th April 2015
Morning All!. I solved this on the plane going to Spain and then had to solve again last night as I had lost the paperwork!. It was a joy both times with some great clues as ever.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27755
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was published on Saturday, 21st March 2015
Morning All! There were some fun clues that tripped me up on the day but I found this a fine solve. Continue reading “DT 27755”
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2787
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ****– Enjoyment ****
This puzzle was published on Sunday, 15th March 2015
Morning All!. This was an exercise in smooth clueing that made the solve tricky since it was hard to insert the mental crowbar between definition and wordplay. There were a number of shin kicking moments when I realised how easily I had been duped but absolutely no complaints here. Excellent stuff!
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2786
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment *****
This puzzle was published on Sunday, 8th March 2015
Morning All!. I am in 5 star territory for some of the misdirection and surface readings here. This was one of the most fun crosswords to have been completed by me in the last 2 years. The re-solve and review brought some subtleties out that I missed previously. Thanks Brian!
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