Toughie No 100,004 by Kcit
Christmas Party Game
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
This crossword appeared on Christmas Day 2012. As the Daily Telegraph is not published on this day, the crossword was only available to on-line subscribers to the Telegraph Puzzles site.
Kcit has set us a gentle Christmas Day Toughie but with a little game to play when you have solved the crossword. When solved, the first and last columns of the completed grid reveal the name of a party game. The words in brackets in the clue to 6a give a strong hint that something is going on.
The words in brackets in the clue to 27a invite to play the game and find the final word of the game in the grid. If you have not yet found the hidden word, look at the marvellous reveal that Big Dave produced at the end of this blog. I think it took me longer to find the hidden word in the grid that it took to solve the crossword.
Happy Christmas to Kcit and all our Toughie tormenters over the past year.
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 150
A Christmas Puzzle by Radler
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Monthly Prize Puzzle No 7 (December 2012) by Gazza
In association with Hamlyn Books,
the publishers of Telegraph Crossword Books
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Welcome to the review of December’s Prize Puzzle set by Gazza. The person whose name was drawn from the electronic hat as this month’s winner was Claire Peat. Congratulations to her. There will be a new monthly prize puzzle in the New Year.
This month, solver’s had to identify the Olympic event identified in the grid (in blue below) and provide the missing event given the others identified in the grid (in red below). The missing event was shooting.
Many thanks to Gazza for an enjoyable crossword. As the Christmas season approaches may I wish you all a very joyful and peaceful Christmas and a happy New Year.
As always, thanks to our sponsors, Hamlyn Books. Do take a moment to look at some of their publications below.
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 149
A Puzzle by Commoner
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 148
A Puzzle by eXternal
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 147
An Alphabetical Jigsaw by Hieroglyph
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 145
A Puzzle by Gazza
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 143
A Puzzle by Wiglaf
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Today I am delighted to introduce a setter making his debut in the NTSPP series. Wiglaf has had puzzles published in Crossword and The Listener and will have an Enigmatic Variations puzzle published later this month. BD
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 142
Searchin’ by Radler
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Monthly Prize Puzzle No 5 (October 2012) by Radler
In association with Hamlyn Books,
the publishers of Telegraph Crossword Books
A review by Prolixic
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Welcome to the review of October’s Prize Puzzle set by Radler. The person whose name was drawn from the electronic hat as this month’s winner was Andy Cole. Congratulations to him. Next month’s prize puzzle will be published on Saturday 3 November.
The theme of the crossword required you to work out which letter of the alphabet was not used as the initial letter of the answers and which letter was used twice. If you got to the end of the crossword, you would have found that the letter W was not used as the initial letter of an answer but, appropriately, there was a double U in the grid with two answers beginning with this letter.
The crossword was full of the usual Radler fun and downright deviousness. Many thanks to him for the crossword. I hope that I have explained the clues correctly. If you have any queries, do let us know.
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