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DT 29821

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29821

Hints and tips by pommers

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BD Rating – Difficulty ***Enjoyment ****

Hola from the Vega Baja where we’re having a spell of unseasonably warm weather. Yesterday we had 30°C and I had to dig out a pair of shorts which had been put away for the winter about three weeks ago.  The forecast is for high twenties for the next few days so I’m not complaining.

Maybe it’s just me but I thought today’s puzzle was a tad trickier than recent Mondays have been but it has the usual elegance of clueing and enough gimmes to get you a toehold.  I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope you did too.
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EV 1511 (Hints)

Enigmatic Variations 1511 (Hints)

Encounter by Vagans

Hints and tips by The Numpties

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What a pleasure to welcome a new setter to the Enigmatic Variations series – though Vagans is already very active as a solver – usually the very first one to react and make constructive comments when the hints appear at noon on Sundays.… Continue reading

DT 29814

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29814

A full review by Rahmat Ali

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This puzzle was published on 23rd Oct 2021

BD Rating – Difficulty ***Enjoyment ***

Greetings from Kolkata. A nice Saturday puzzle from the setter that I rejoiced in solving insofar as in writing thereafter a review of the same for your kind perusal and precious feedback.
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