Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3278 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where, on Friday, during the ‘highlight of my week’ a.k.a. the trip to the supermarket, I acquired my first King Charles coins. Both are Loonies – one the ‘regular’ one with the eponymous Loon on the reverse and the other a commemorative coin marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of authoress L M Montgomery the creator of Anne of Green Gables – likenesses of both are shown on the reverse.… Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3277 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where we had a very autumnal day on Thursday – long trousers and a pullover were required; meanwhile, from Ottawa eastwards the remnants of Hurricane Debby have been unloading copious amounts of rain.… Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3276 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where the weather forecast is predicting a week of cooler temperatures, all relative of course, of low to middle 20s with ‘feels likes’ not over 30.… Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3275 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg – the Prairie Summer weather ‘mix’ continues although I think I heard mention of below seasonal temperatures in the weather forecast.
For me, and I stress for me, Dada reasonably friendly although his personal thesaurus may have been his preferred choice for some clues – two long ‘uns, eight anagrams (three partials), one lurker, and one homophone all in a slightly asymmetric 30 clues; with 15 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues. … Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3274 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where a typical Prairie summer continues.
For me, and I stress for me, I seemed to be right on Dada’s wavelength, not surprising I suppose as this is the 296th of his 297 Sunday puzzles that I have solved and blogged – six anagrams (three partials), one lurker, and one homophone all in a slightly asymmetric 30 clues; with 15 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues. … Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3273 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where the forecast suggests that the heat and humidity will continue for the next two weeks at least with temperatures up to 30 degrees for several days in a row and the occasional thunderstorm just to provide a little variety.… Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3272 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where changeable weather is the order of the day – wake up to clear blue sunny skies and then a high probability of rain or thunderstorms in the afternoons and evenings.… Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3271 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where we are having a long weekend to celebrate the 157th birthday of Canada or, for those with a particular view on colonialism, the acknowledgement of the 157th anniversary of the enactment of the first British North America Act.… Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3270 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where it is getting warmer but still with plenty of rain.
Another c*ck up at Telegraph Towers, the enumeration of 9d, in two on-line sources, is incorrectly shown as (11) – correctly it is (4,7). … Continue reading
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3269 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where the highlight of my week this week, much better than last week, was attending a celebration banquet to mark the centenary of the Royal Canadian Air Force.… Continue reading