Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27451
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Big Dave asked me to step in and do the blog for this typical Rufus crossword. I didn’t have any difficulties personally, but how did you get on?
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27338
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A somewhat more difficult crossword from the Monday Maestro today. I don’t know why but it took me a while to spot the anagram at 8d.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27333
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I don’t know why, but I struggled with this at times, but I did enjoy the solve.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27326
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The usual consistent crossword from the Maestro, but I don’t think it offered as much entertainment as we usually expect.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27320
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Good fun from the Maestro (as expected), hope everybody survived the storm, we got the edges of it last night with gusts up to 70 kph. Sad to hear of the death of Lou Reed, I was privileged to see the Velvet Underground live at Wembley in June 1993, the last time the original line up all played together.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27314
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Not the most difficult of crosswords, but a lot of fun – as always from the Maestro.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27308
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A typical Monday morning offering from the Maestro.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27302
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An entertaining crossword from the Maestro.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27296
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Rufus back to his normal self today, a piece of 11a perhaps?
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 27290
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The usual enjoyable and relatively straight forward Monday solve, except for 16d!
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