Toughie No 104 by Osmosis
A typical Toughie with some tricky wordplay
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
Category: Crosswords
Hints and tips for completing Daily Telegraph Cryptic crosswords
DT Cryptic No 25866
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25866
Today’s hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
There’s nothing too difficult in today’s Cryptic crossword and the clues range from pretty neat to not so good. I’ve followed Big Dave’s convention in providing the answers hidden inside curly brackets (thanks to him for telling me how to achieve this effect). If you can’t work out the answer from my hint you can reveal it by highlighting the white space inside the curly brackets.
DT Cryptic No 25865
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25865
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
ST Cryptic No 2473 – Hints
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2473
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
For the weekend prize crosswords I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them. A full analysis of this puzzle will be available at 12.00 next Thursday, March 5th.
Some hints to get you started: Continue reading “ST Cryptic No 2473 – Hints”
DT Cryptic No 25864 – Hints
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25864
Selected hints
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Toughie No 103
DT Cryptic No 25863
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25863
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
ST Cryptic No 2472 – Review
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2472 – Review
A full analysis by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
Writing up the Sunday puzzles is a very frustrating job. They tend to be difficult to finish, although this one was easier than most, but then you are left with the feeling of annoyance at some of the clues, which spoils any enjoyment you might have received from some of the others. This one has more of the annoying clues and less of the enjoyable ones. Continue reading “ST Cryptic No 2472 – Review”
DT Cryptic No 25858 – Review
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25858 – Review
A full analysis by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
As many of you are aware, this crossword was accidentally released on the CluedUp website last Friday. Although it was subsequently replaced by the correct Friday puzzle, this was not before Libellule had reviewed it for us. Here is that review, revised to give all of the answers. BD
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Toughie No 102
Toughie No 102 by Messinae
If you can do the regular cryptic then try this one today
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I am trying out a new technique for displaying “spoiler” information on 5 down and 12 down – if you highlight the blank space between the brackets this will reveal the answer. Let me know what you think of this – it could satisfy the problem of looking for one answer and accidentally viewing another.