Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26358
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
The usual entertaining puzzle from Jay, although I do have a few minor niggles.
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 26352
Hints and tips by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
Jay gave us a puzzle requiring quite a bit of thought which was a bit of a shock after three consecutive puzzles which took me no time at all – shame Other Dave wasn’t out of the office on Monday or Tuesday!! I didn’t notice when solving the puzzle but writing the review has made me realise that there is a slight leaning towards the United States today.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26346
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Welcome to the Wednesday blog. Before getting down to business, let me give you a brief background about myself. I am a retired engineer living in Ottawa, Canada as well as a relative newcomer to cryptic crosswords, having taken up the pastime (to which I quickly became addicted) only a couple of years ago, following my retirement. However, I do have a fairly solid foundation, having been a longtime solver of regular crossword puzzles. Furthermore, my training has been greatly accelerated by closely following a number of British cryptic crossword sites, in particular, this one.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26340
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
There’s little more I can say about Jay’s puzzles. Just enjoy solving this one.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26334
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ***
Standard Telegraph crossword, yet again, from Jay.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26328
Hints and tips by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Our setters are giving us some very enjoyable puzzles so far this week. Today Jay has given us some great clues and, in my opinion, just the right amount of anagrams, including some of those part-anagram, part-something-else clues. Didn’t take too long to solve but still great fun – ideal for when you are supposed to be getting on with the day job!!
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26322
Hints and tips by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **/***
I took a while to get into today’s Jay puzzle, the downs falling into place quicker than the acrosses but in the end it only took me a couple of minutes longer than usual to solve. I have based the difficulty rating partly on my initial struggle and partly on how hard it was to work out why I had the answer I had! There are a nice mix of clues, including several to please the anagram fans.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26316
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Another excellent puzzle from the Telegraph’s Wednesday Wizard.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26310
Hints and tips by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Thank you Jay for another nice Wednesday puzzle for us to work through today. Although most of it was straightforward, there were a couple of clues which caused me problems, hence the difficulty rating.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26304
Hints and tips by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
A fairly straight forward mid week offering from Jay, with the usual number of interesting anagrams and a couple of clues to give you pause for thought, hence my awarding it three stars for difficulty. Although it took me the longest to work out, I am going for 23a as my favourite clue today.
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