Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26146
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Neat, clean, delectable – some words to describe today’s offering from our Monday maestro. Most of the clues are easy. Some have slightly tricky bits of play.
At one stage I had six clues to go. They were: 28a, 30a and 8d, 21d, 26d, 27d. Of these, the very last to go in were 30a and 26d.
The clues that I liked most are: 9a, 11a, 18a, 5d, 15d, 20d, 25d – all of which have smooth surface reading.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26140
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A gentle start to the week. With 1a, one plunges into the crossword.
At one stage I had these to go: 15a, 18a, 19a; 4d, 7d, 15d, 20d, 23d.
The very last were 4d, 7d, 23d.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26134
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A crossword that is mostly easy but also with some half-a-dozen clues which may hold you up for some minutes until you see light. Among the last to go in were 23a, 28a and 31a and 8d, 16d, 18d, 21d and 27d. Do enter a comment to say if one man’s poison was another man’s (or woman’s) meat.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26128
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A crossword with some excellent clues but also some which raise questions or don’t satisfy me completely.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26122
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Today’s crossword by our Monday Maestro is mostly easy but there are also a few difficult clues that yield themselves only after we consider them for a while.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26117
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Today’s crossword from our Monday Maestro posed some difficulties which I had to surmount before completing the puzzle. At one stage, after the initial flurry of quick fills, I had ten to go: 10a, 14a, 28a, 29a, 30a and 7d, 18d, 19d,21d and 26d. Luckily these fell one by one: why the bottom left corner held on till the end was because of my own mistake in writing wrongly the second word in the long phrasal 11d. I got wise to it only after some crossings wouldn’t gel.
Clues I liked especially: 20a, 1d.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26111
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An enjoyable outing on Monday morning.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26105
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A pleasant start to the week with a crossword by our Monday Maestro.
I was held up for some minutes by fewer than half-a-dozen clues. The last to go in were 1a, 9a and 5d and 7d.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26099
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A satisfying puzzle from our Monday Maestro. Just one clue, 29ac, may perhaps hold you up if you haven’t come across the ploy before.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26093
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I enjoyed solving this crossword from our Monday Maestro. The grid is cyclically symmetrical, that is, the pattern is the same whichever way you turn.
Clues 1a and 31a, in symmetrical positions in the grid, belong to a type known as &lit, which I think is short for ‘and literally so’ [we also use the term all-in-one for these – BD] – for definition of the word required, we have to reread the clue in its entirety. Both these clues lead to words from the world of professions – one teaching lines to children and the other making locomotives run on lines.
For me the Clue of the Crossword is 3d – all components in this charade are from roads and “by-pass” is a noun in the surface reading but a verb as definition for word required.
The last to go in was 13a – for non-UK solvers it’s always place names that are the bugbears.
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