Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26153
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
We have a very entertaining puzzle from Ray T today, which I thought was a bit more difficult than usual. Let us know whether you agree or not with a comment!
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26147
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
We have a pleasant and not too taxing puzzle today, with a few smiles along the way. Based on the pattern over the past few months it’s probably by Shamus (but that’s just my supposition).
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26141
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
We have a Ray T puzzle today with some entertaining clues and one good belly laugh. As usual with Ray’s puzzles, the difficulties are not so much with the wordplay as in working out the relationship between the definition and the answer, and in a couple of clues today I thought that the elastic between the two was stretched a bit far. Do you agree or not? – in either case we’d love to get your comments.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26135
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
We have a good work-out today (or perhaps it’s just that my brain is getting sluggish in the Arctic winter that we’re having!). As I write I see that Clued Up is showing five stars for difficulty for this one – I wouldn’t go that far, but I think that it is a bit trickier than we’re used to on a Tuesday.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26129
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
It’s snowing quite heavily here now, so it’s very pleasant to sit in the warm drinking a cup of coffee and writing this review, whilst stealing a glance at the Christmas card scene outside.
The puzzle has all the hallmarks of a Ray T composition – tight surface readings, a few smiles and one belly laugh. I think that it’s slightly easier than his usual offerings, so I’ve given it only two stars for difficulty – of course you may disagree, and if you do (or even if you don’t) we’d love to get a comment from you.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26123
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
It looks like we can look forward to a week of very gentle puzzles, if the pattern for yesterday and today is continued. Perhaps this is to be Clueless Club week!!
Gazza’s new broadband connection has broken, so I am filling in for him today (and Tilsit is doing battle with the Toughie). [15:30 – Gazza is now back online, and all set to tackle tomorrow’s Toughie.]
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26118
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
It’s Ray T’s turn this week and we have a typically entertaining puzzle, although I felt that a couple of the cryptic definitions were a bit weak, and I do have a gripe with 12a.
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Since this is my last Cryptic review before the big day (although for Toughie addicts, I will be back tomorrow), may I take this opportunity to wish everyone a Very Happy Christmas.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26112
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
If the recent Tuesday pattern is being maintained then this will be a Shamus puzzle, although I’ve no means of verifying that. We have a reasonable challenge today (though the number of place names may annoy some people), but I have a couple of quibbles.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26106
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
It’s Ray T’s turn this Tuesday and we have a typical puzzle from him, but with perhaps more cryptic definitions than usual. I didn’t think that it was too difficult, though I did initially write in Footsie for 7d.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26100
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I’ll be very interested to hear your views on this puzzle. While I was solving it I had the impression that it was quite difficult, but later, writing the review, I can’t really see why I thought that.
All comments are welcome, especially from those readers who have yet to introduce themselves.
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