Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2487 – Hints
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Two weeks ago I wrote “I do prefer my puzzles to be a bit harder than this was”. Well, you can blame me for this one! A good Sunday challenge, with a good mix of clues.
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 Friday, 12th June.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25948 – Hints
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
I really enjoyed this Saturday puzzle, and I hope that those girls and boys names and obscure towns are gone forever.
There is an expectation that the Saturday prize puzzle will be more difficult than the weekday ones, but this has certainly not been the case in the Telegraph in recent years. Being cynical, I suspect that this is a marketing ploy designed to sell more copies of the newspaper!
As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them. Peter Biddlecombe’s full review of this puzzle will be published at 12.00 on Thursday, 11th June.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2486 – Hints
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
A sunny puzzle for a sunny Sunday!
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 Friday, 5th June.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25942 – Hints
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
An altogether better puzzle this week, albeit a little easier than last week. The handful of proper nouns are clued reasonably well, and I quite liked the unusual grid.
As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them. Peter Biddlecombe’s full review of this puzzle will be published at 12.00 on Thursday, 4th June.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2485 – Hints
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
If anything this one was a bit too easy, with two well-known places and a not-so-well-known explorer who is hidden in the clue.
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 Friday, 29th May.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25936 – Hints
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
Once again we have a reasonable puzzle which, for me, was spoilt by the geography lesson that belongs in a general knowledge crossword. This week’s name is the same Welsh one that came up in DT 25906.
Peter Biddlecombe’s full review of this puzzle will be published at 12.00 on Thursday, 28th May.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2484 – Hints
Selected Hints by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
I don’t always do this crossword, but if today’s is the standard which we can expect every week then I’ll be doing it regularly in future. I think it is excellent, and when selecting which interesting clues to give hints for, my problem was deciding which ones to leave out, rather than which ones to include. As usual a full analysis will appear next Thursday afternoon – in the meantime feel free to leave a comment, but please do not reveal any answers.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25930 – Hints
Selected Hints by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Big Dave is taking a well-deserved weekend off, so I’ve been volunteered to provide selected hints for today’s and tomorrow’s prize puzzles. As usual a full review of today’s puzzle by Peter Biddlecombe will appear next Thursday afternoon. I enjoyed doing this one, especially the cryptic clues.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2483 – Hints
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Another Sunday puzzle to enjoy while sitting in the garden in the sunshine. I even forgave the setter for including the now obligatory place name!
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, 14th May.
Some hints to get you started:
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25924 – Hints
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Without the obscure people and places this would have been a very good puzzle. There is quite a lot to enjoy and, for me at least, only one of those clues that give you that teeth-sucking moment.
Two small landmarks – this is the 200th post on the blog and earlier this week the view count topped 100,000.
Peter Biddlecombe’s full review of this puzzle will be published at 12.00 on Thursday, 14th May.
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