Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25905
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Another generally enjoyable Friday puzzle, but a bit more complicated today, than it has been for a while.
Category: DT Cryptic Crosswords
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DT Cryptic No 25900 – Review
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25900 – Review
A full analysis by Peter Biddlecombe
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I found this a bit easier than last week’s, but based on recent goes at some old DT puzzles, there may be even easier ones out there (or I’m gaining from experience), so not worthy of one-star difficulty. The grid is mostly very sound, but spoiled a bit by some under-checking at the edges. On the placenames that the Saturday setter seems fond of, I don’t mind having them as answers, but would prefer not to have quite such difficult geographical wordplay as used today. I have a vague notion that I’ve seen a more approachable {town+town = town} clue before, but I can’t think of the places – maybe Sometown+Bury or Sometown+Chester?
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DT Cryptic No 25904
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25904
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
If yesterday’s puzzle required a frantic trawl through a medical ward, then today’s offers a period of convalescence with a gentle stroll through some fairly straightforward clues with no obscure words in sight.
DT Cryptic No 25903
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25903
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
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DT Cryptic No 25902
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25902
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Fasten your seat belts! This puzzle takes us on a virtual world tour – we visit two English towns, two French towns, an American university, regions in the Middle East and Italy, and an African country.
DT Cryptic No 25901
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25901
Hints and tips by Tilsit
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
A reasonably straightforward start to the week from our regular Monday setter. Lots of cryptic definitions and anagrams to give you a good start in completing it. My only grumble is with the grid itself; 18 answers each contain a double unchecked letter and if the cluing hadn’t been so solver- friendly, I could imagine I would have had trouble. 14 had me looking for something less obvious than it actually was, but generally a nice friendly puzzle after a weekend of solving some really tough beasts. Thanks to Big Dave for a nudge with 9 across. And now back to writing almost 200 questions for our local quiz league Individual Mastermind Championship.
DT Cryptic No 25899
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25899 (8155 on CluedUp)
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
An enjoyable amble through this crossword this morning. It didn’t present too many problems, and I particularly enjoyed some clever cryptic double definitions.
DT Cryptic No 25894 – Review
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25894 – CD Collection
A full analysis by Peter Biddlecombe
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was memorable for the number of cryptic definitions. I like some of them and had reservations about others. The grid is good this week – six different word-lengths, no isolated corners, and 50%+ checking throughout. Other grid designers might have put the 11-letter words on the same row as a 3-letter word, but as Telegraph puzzles seem to have more three-letter words than some others, a puzzle with none of them is fine!
This was probably the easiest of the Saturday puzzles I’ve covered so far – there was no “nasty corner” to delay a solution when everything else was finished.
DT Cryptic No 25898
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25898
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I found this one slightly trickier than those of recent days and it was slow-going to start with, but I was able to proceed steadily once I had got the long clues, and I learnt a new word on the way. Several of the clues appear at first sight to be more complicated than they actually are, and the whole thing is enjoyable.
DT Cryptic No 25897
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25897
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
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