Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26176
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This crossword was certainly not on the ‘easy’ side. Let me unabashedly confess that I had a slow start and at one stage I had the following clues yet to go: 1a, 11a, 14a, 25a, 29a and 31a and 2d, 3d, 7d, 21d, 22d and 27d. You will notice that among these are some anagram clues! In the notes below I will try to say what gives a twist of hardness to some of these.
I generally say that the Monday crossword gives a gentle start to the week. This time it may not have been so gentle, but let me assure you that it is a very pleasant solve and we marvel at the superb cluemanship of our Monday Maestro.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26170
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
A gentle, pleasant start to the week.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26164
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
None-too-difficult crossword.
Of the clues that may hold you for a while are 9a, 18a and 21a and 3d, 4d and 23d. Did I say ‘hold you for a while’? Sorry, I should have said they were the latter ones that I solved. For, the experience of each solver differs according to his/her interests and I daresay RU fans would have got 4d quicker than I did. Do tell us in the Comments section whether the final answers of yours were different from those mentioned above.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26158
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
A none-too-difficult puzzle except for a couple of clues such as 31a and 16d that require a literary background and 2d and 4d that are from ancient history.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26152
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***
I am giving three-and-a-half stars for difficulty rating to this crossword by our Monday maestro as wordplay in many clues is decidedly not-so-easy.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26146
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
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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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
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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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
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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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
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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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
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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