Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25932
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Once more we have an excellent Tuesday puzzle with some very entertaining surface readings. The layout of the grid encourages you to solve one corner at a time, and I was proceeding quite well until I reached the South-East corner which held me up for a while.
Can I point out to new readers (and to regular readers who have not yet read Big Dave’s FAQ!) that the curly brackets associated with each clue are not just there for artistic embellishment – the answer is hidden inside them, and if my hints are insufficient to give you the answer you can reveal it by selecting the space inside the brackets.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25926
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
In his review yesterday tilsit introduced a phrase “double unch” (double unchecked square) which I hadn’t heard before and which I determined to remember for future use – well, I did not have to wait long, because today’s puzzle is full of them! It’s a bit of a curate’s egg really, with a few nice cryptic definitions and some attempts at misdirection, but some of the surface readings are pretty poor, notably 16d.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25920
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This is another decent puzzle from our normal Tuesday setter, whose trademark is to have only single-word answers. Some will decry the layout of the grid, with each of the corners pretty isolated – but look on the bright side, you get four puzzles for the price of one!
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25914
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Today’s compiler obviously thought that we were in need of a bit of a rest after yesterday’s tricky effort, and has produced a very straightforward puzzle, which, nevertheless, has a number of entertaining clues.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25908
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This is another fine Tuesday crossword, made up entirely of single-word answers. It contains some excellent and amusing clues and a number of clever attempts at misdirection. For those readers who have not read BigDave’s excellent FAQs, note that the white space between the curly brackets actually contains the answer – double-click on it and all will be revealed!
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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.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25896
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This puzzle was a pleasure to tackle with its large number of cleverly-worded clues.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25890
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I had a sense of déjà vu when doing this puzzle since many of the answers seemed to have cropped up recently! It’s a typical Tuesday puzzle – nothing too complicated or tricky.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25884
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This one is not overly difficult but has some cleverly-worded clues. I found it very enjoyable.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25878
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This one is a fairly typical Daily Telegraph cryptic crossword – workmanlike with nothing too complicated. As usual, the answers are hidden inside the curly brackets – select the white space inside if you’re totally stumped.
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