Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31361 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club
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Category: DT Cryptic Crosswords
Hints and tips for completing the regular Daily Telegraph Cryptic crosswords
Toughie 3768
Toughie No 3768 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ****** – Enjoyment *****
Anyone else solve the first two clues straight away and hope that we might have Elgar wearing his pink fluffy slippers this week? No such luck – this Friday Toughie was as diabolically tough as ever!
DT 31360
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31360
Hints and tips by Mr K
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BD Rating - Difficulty ** - Enjoyment ****
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. If you’re familiar with the entries in Big Dave’s Usual Suspects and Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing pages, you likely found this entertaining puzzle a smooth solve. If that’s not you, then you might have learned a few new word meanings making sense of it all. Continue reading "DT 31360"
DT 31355 (Full Review)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31355
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 26th September 2026
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. An excellent and challenging Saturday puzzle from Chris Lancaster that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a review of the same for your kind perusal and significant feedback. Continue reading “DT 31355 (Full Review)”
Toughie 3767
Toughie No 3767 by Dharma
Hints and tips by ALP
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BD Rating – Toughie difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment *****
As ever, it took a moment of flitting about the grid to refind my Dharma legs but, once regained, this fell into place very nicely – started gingerly, finished at pace. Nowt obscure and all very stylish: sharp wit, smart constructions and silky surfaces. Up there with his very best, I’d say. The floor is yours.
DT 31359
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31359
Hints and Tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** Enjoyment ***
A pleasant and not too taxing puzzle including no obscurities but a couple of colloquial terms which probably wouldn’t have made it into the Telegraph a decade ago. Many thanks to our setter.
Continue reading “DT 31359”
Toughie 3766
Toughie No 3766 by Donnybrook
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
A nice start of the week Toughie from Donnybrook, with a bit of a cozy mystery theme and, probably only if you are me, an earworm too!
DT 31358
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31358
Hints and Tips by Deansleigh
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** Enjoyment ***
Good morning everyone, and welcome to the midweek back-pager blog. For me, today’s crossword came between Monday’s and yesterday’s puzzle in terms of difficulty, with one or two clues needing some general knowledge, and a couple more where the parsing eluded me for a while. I counted five famous women, including three TV chefs and two world leaders. Amongst my favourite clues today were 19a, 28a and 20d. Many thanks to our setter.
DT 31357
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31357
Hints and tips by Huntsman
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** Enjoyment ****
It is just starting to brighten up here in Harpenden after a dull & slightly drizzly start to the day. Hopefully it will stay dry this afternoon for what will be one of my last rounds at South Herts as a member having made the decision to join my local course at Harpenden Common.
For me today’s puzzle was certainly not Typically Tuesdayish & I found it a good deal trickier than yesterday. I usually tune straight into Anthony Plumb’s wavelength but not so today & as I laboured through a bottom ⬆️ grid fill I began to doubt it was one of his productions. Reading back through it post completion I’m still not sure so it will be interesting to see what others think. Either way I thought that there were some great clues & thoroughly enjoyed the solve despite the crumpet requiring a fair bit of early morning scratching.
I had ticks against 20,23,27&28a plus 4,8,14,16&17d. 20a gets my vote as pick of ‘em.
Chalicea is over in t’other place with one of her delightful trademark ‘floughie’ Toughies
As usual there is a selection of music to enjoy or ignore.
In the hints below the definition element of each clue has been underlined, anagrams are CAPITALISED & the crossword technique “indicator words” are in brackets. The answers are concealed under the Click Here buttons. Please leave a comment below telling us what you thought & how you got on with the puzzle.
DT 31356
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31356
Hints and tips by Smylers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ★ – Enjoyment ★★
Good morning. Welcome to Monday’s Telegraph Crossword. Hints to, explanations of, and pedantry about the clues follow.