Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3344 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg from where I am happy to report that I have booked my flights for attendance at BB17, a.k.a. my semisesquicentennial plus one year and six days, and some family visiting – I am not sure which is more important – but no more date changes SJB.
For me, and I stress for me,© Dada quirkily friendly, with his own thesaurus in evidence, with six anagrams (four partial), two lurkers, and one homophone in a very asymmetric 28 clues; with 14 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, which I am reasonably certain are below, you should/might be able to get some of the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31088
Hints and Tips by Senf
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
A very good Wednesday morning from Winnipeg where ice is beginning to form on the rivers that run through the city. No c*ck-ups from me, all the hints are there, or the DT, the puzzle ‘appeared’ on time, today.
For me, etc© (I have to say that for Terence), a very enjoyable puzzle with a number of examples of clever misdirection. With sharing Wednesdays with Gazza I am losing track of the Wednesday setters so I just hope that today’s setter pops in to claim ownership.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3343 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg. Even living in Canada, I used to be comfortable with the idea that the Christmas season ‘started’ the day after the US Thanksgiving Holiday on the fourth Thursday of November, which is usually ‘close’ to the start of Advent, but the curmudgeon in me considers the fact that the season now starts within a few days of, or the day after, Halloween is just plain nuts.
For me, and I stress for me,© Dada friendly with two long ‘un, six anagrams (one partial), one lurker, and one homophone in a very asymmetric 28 clues; with 14 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should/might be able to get some of the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3342 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg on this Remembrance Sunday where, courtesy of two Alberta Clippers in quick succession, we have had a couple of ‘dustings’ of fluffy white precipitation. And, oh dear, Santa is already building his grotto in at least one of the shopping malls in the city!
Thankfully, whatever it was that caused the delay in publishing yesterday’s puzzles did not reoccur. In fact, as often happens, today’s puzzles were available shortly after 11:30pm UK time (6:30pm in Winnipeg).
For me, and I stress for me,© Dada reasonably friendly with two long ‘un, seven anagrams (two partial), two lurkers (one reversed), and no homophones in a symmetric 28 clues; with 15 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should/might be able to get some of the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31076
Hints and Tips by Senf
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
A very good Wednesday morning from Winnipeg.
For me, etc© (I have to say that for Terence), somewhat of a challenge. I am not very good at ‘guessing the setter’ on a Wednesday but I am inclined to consider that this is the work of Twmbarlwm.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3341 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where the term ‘wintry precipitation’ is beginning to be used in weather forecasts.
For me, and I stress for me,© to borrow the last word of 13d, Dada somewhat quirky. One long ‘un, seven anagrams (one partial), 1 lurker, and no homophones in a slightly asymmetric 29 clues; with 15 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should/might be able to get some of the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3340 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where, with the end of BST, we now start a ‘hiatus’ week of puzzles being available an hour later until we ‘Fall Back’ next weekend.
For me, and I stress for me,© quite challenging, especially in the NE, although I probably made it more difficult than it should have been. 5 anagrams (0 partials), 1 lurker, and 1 homophone in a symmetric 28 clues; with 14 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should/might be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31064
Hints and Tips by Senf
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
A very good Wednesday morning from Winnipeg where, with a temperature of 4 degrees and a North wind blowing at 23 km/hr with gusts to 45 km/hr, the black coat had its first outing at this end of the year yesterday!
For me, etc© (I have to say that for Terence), somewhat quirky with some head scratching when it came to some of the parsings. I am not going to attempt to guess the setter, but thanks to them.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3339 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where it is cooling down and the red scarf has been very much in evidence. It is getting close to the time when the black coat will have to come out of the closet!
For me, and I stress for me,© much better than last Sunday but not much value for money with only 27 clues. Three longish ones, 7 anagrams (4 partials), 1 lurker reversed, and no homophones; with 14 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should/might be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3338 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg on our Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend; we don’t call the second Monday in October Columbus Day, as they do to the South of us, because we know that he never set foot in North America confining himself to exploration of the Bahamas and islands in the Caribbean including Cuba and Hispaniola.
For me, and I stress for me,© I expect that there will be some who will describe today’s puzzle as a ‘walk in the park’ or similar and one might think that this being my 359th Dada Sunday blog that I have got the complete measure of him, apparently not! This brought back memories of ST 2978 on November 18th, 2018. Two long ‘uns, 8 anagrams (3 partials), 1 lurker, and 2 homophones (one partial) all in a slightly asymmetric 28 clues; with 14 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should/might be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues. And, remembering what CS wrote about thinking yesterday, in Comment 11, my electronic blue pencil is at the ready and the Naughty Step is OPEN!
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