Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26453
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Our Wednesday Wizard conjures up a puzzle that is not too difficult.
Category: Wednesday
Since the beginning of 2010, Wednesday’s regular setter is Jeremy Mutch who has visited the blog as Jay. During 2009, Jay set almost all the Thursday puzzles.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26447
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Another typical Telegraph puzzle from Jay, our Wednesday wizard.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26441
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This puzzle, from Jay?, had a few slightly tricky clues but turned out to be solvable in about average time.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26435
Hints and tips by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
There is something about having to write a review that can make the little grey solving cells freeze up a bit, but no such problems this morning. Thanks to Jay for a very enjoyable puzzle, with a nice mix of clues, many of which needed you to say something out loud in order to get the correct sense of the word required to obtain the solution, 10a being one example of this.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26430
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
I enjoyed this puzzle (from Jay?) in spite of missing the obvious hidden word at 1a until the very end!
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26424
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Jay never fails to give us a puzzle that is free of controversy. Here’s another one!
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26418
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
An enjoyable, if not overly difficult, offering today from Jay (I presume). There is a fairly nice mix of clue types, although I expect some will think that there are too many “first and last letter of …” type clues in the puzzle.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26412
Hints and tips by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
An excellent Wednesday crossword from Jay today. I enjoyed the solving process and am even more of a fan having written the review. A very nice mix of clues, some nice misleads and some lovely double definitions. I can already see the comments regarding my difficulty rating but that’s how I found it. I just hope you all found it as entertaining as I did. Thanks Jay.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26406
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Our Wednesday Wizard casts his spell and the result is another fine puzzle.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26400
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Slightly harder than usual today, but another fine puzzle from Jay.