Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31278
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BD Rating – Difficulty ★★ – Enjoyment ★★★★
Hello. Lovely to see you all for this Monday crossword.… Continue reading
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31266
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Hello. First some good news. Well, old news, this being from March, but I only
spotted it recently and I’m guessing some others here also hadn’t heard it.… Continue reading
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31254
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Welcome to June, and to Monday’s Telegraph crossword. We’re back from a week in Herefordshire to go to the Hay Festival (which is a festival about books, not about hay). Talks enjoyed by various members of the family included those by Susie Dent, Elizabeth Strout, Richard Coles, Ian Hislop, and a couple of Beano writers.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31242
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Hello. Here are hints and explanations for today’s Telegraph crossword. This took me a little while to complete, but if you’re the kind of solver who does the anagrams first, rather than needing to leave them till later when there are lots of crossing letters, then you can probably knock off a difficulty star.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31230
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Welcome to the Telegraph crossword for Bank Holiday Monday. I treated myself to a lie-in, not having to solve and blog before starting work, and perhaps shouldn’t have done: this took me longer to solve than any other crossword I’ve hinted! How did you get on?
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31218
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BD Rating – Difficulty ★★ – Enjoyment ★★★
Good morning, and welcome to Monday’s crossword. I think most will find this easier than the past couple of Mondays’. I actually finished this quickly, and those who rate difficulty purely on time may categorize this as just ★. But after my first pass there were still left many gaps in the grid, and a few of the clues have quite involved wordplay, so I think this is less suitable for a complete beginner than the puzzles I rate as ★, and ★★ it is.
Spouse and I are just back from a long weekend away to celebrate my birthday, which was a square number this year. See these pictues to work out where we went:
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31206
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BD Rating – Difficulty ★★★ – Enjoyment ★★★
Happy Easter from Ilkley, where for once the sunrise was actually visible at our Easter Day Son-Rise service by the Cow & Calf rocks:
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31194
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Hello. I’d claim it’s always a good time to visit Ilkley, but now’s a particularly good time, with it looking like this:
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31182
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Hello from Ilkley. Here are some photos from a day trip this weekend — where did we go? (People from Yorkshire, please let others answer first!)
I liked all the clues in today’s Telegraph cryptic crossword. I got fewer answers on the first pass than I often do on Mondays, so I’ve rated it ★★ rather than ★ for difficulty. But several of the ones I skipped were those I’d successfully identified as anagrams, which I find hard to work out until I have crossing letters; if you’re somebody who can solve anagrams straight away, you may find it easier than I did.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31170
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Hello from Ilkley, part of the City of Bradford, last year’s UK City of Culture. That involved hosting the Turner Prize, the exhibition for which we finally got round to visiting this weekend. Here are some pictues of works by Mohammed Sami, winner Nnena Kalu, and two of Zadie Xa’s golden-floored room (in which we had to remove our shoes):
