Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28091
Hints and tips by Miffypops
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Today we have a typical Rufus puzzle. Elegant and fair clues with lovely surface readings.… Continue reading
Author: Miffypops
Miffypops once lived deep in the rural beauty of South Warwickshire. He now lives just across the border in Leicestershire with his long suffering wife (Saint) Sharon.
Thanks to his parents he cannot remember life without crossword puzzles.
DT 28085
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28085
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ****
I tried to pass today blogging chair off to anybody else but I feel that most of the reviewing team are lying in darkened rooms under heavy sedation after last week’s puzzling fun and games.… Continue reading
DT 28079
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28079
Today’s Hinty Person – Miffypops
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Today’s Rufus puzzle is another little ripsnorter. Although The grid was still quite bare after the first reading of across clues enough downs went in to provide a solid basis to finish at a sprint.… Continue reading
DT 28073
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28073
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Happy Easter and Good Morning from the wind and rain battered heart of Downtown L I.… Continue reading
DT 28067
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28067
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Good Morning from the heart of Downtown L.… Continue reading
DT 28055
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28055
Hints and tips by the mercurial Miffypops
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Good Morning from the heart of Downtown L I.… Continue reading
DT 28049
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28049
Hints and tips by Miffypops and Saint Sharon
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from the frosty but sunny heart of Downtown LI.… Continue reading
DT 28043
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28043
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
A very happy eighty-fourth birthday to today’s setter, Roger Squires, from all of us at Big Dave’s Crossword Blog
Our Monday morning maestro
Has once again compiled
A gentle charming puzzle
Which leaves us quite beguiled
There are anagrams to please us
And chestnuts of tradition
And also here to tease us
Are some double definitions
We have clever surface readings
That mislead and confuse
And words that might be hidden
Or reversed within these clues
As you wrestle with this puzzle
From this man who never tires
Please join me in saying
Happy birthday Roger Squires
Please leave a comment telling us what you thought.… Continue reading
DT 28037
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28037
Hints and tips by Miffypops
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Miffy pops is not worthy. I hang my head in shame and admit to using the crossword solver at 23ac.… Continue reading
DT 28031
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28031
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I found this to be slightly tougher than most weeks but entirely fair.… Continue reading