Toughie No 3576 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Category: Friday
Friday’s current setter is Don Manley who is also known as Giovanni, Duck, Pasquale, Quixote, and Bradman (all punningly connected with the name Don or Donald)
DT 31072
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31072
Hints and tips by Mr K
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BD Rating - Difficulty *** - Enjoyment ***
Hello, everyone, and welcome to a solid Friday puzzle. Continue reading "DT 31072"
Toughie 3572
Toughie No 3572 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
A properly tough Friday-level puzzle with no anagrams which I enjoyed doing battle with. Thanks to Osmosis.
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DT 31066
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31066
Hints and tips by Mr K
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BD Rating - Difficulty *** - Enjoyment ****
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. I thought this puzzle was very enjoyable with a difficulty level around average for the Friday slot. I hope our setter drops in later to claim it. Continue reading "DT 31066"
Toughie 3568
Toughie No 3568 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
DT 31060
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31060
Hints and tips by Mr K
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BD Rating - Difficulty **** - Enjoyment ***
Hello, everyone, and welcome to a tricky Friday puzzle. Continue reading "DT 31060"
Toughie 3564
Toughie No 3564 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This is not too tricky for a Friday Toughie but enjoyable. There are two answers that I’d not heard of but both were very fairly clued. Many thanks to Sparks.
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DT 31054
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31054
Hints and tips by Mr K
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BD Rating - Difficulty **** - Enjoyment ***
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. There’s some tricky parsing in today’s puzzle. Continue reading "DT 31054"
Toughie 3560
Toughie No 3560 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Elgar’s Proper Friday Toughie is a pangram, which may or may not help you finish solving the puzzle. Some nice helpful four-letter solutions together with a few longer ones that did take quite a bit of thought and muttering to parse!
DT 31048
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31048
Hints and tips by Mr K
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BD Rating - Difficulty ** - Enjoyment ****
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. A grid fill using every letter but X suggests that this fine puzzle is the work of regular Friday setter proXimal. Thanks to him for an entertaining crossword to solve and to hint. Continue reading "DT 31048"