Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2472
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, February 26th.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25858
Selected hints
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
We published a full review, by Libellule, of this puzzle yesterday when it was accidentally released online. As our policy here is to provide hints only for the weekend prize crosswords that review has been removed, and will be reposted at 12.00 next Thursday, February 26th. Instead I have selected a few hints from that review. This will mean that Peter Biddlecombe will have a week off and be back on Thursday, 5th March with a review of next Saturday’s puzzle.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2471
This one should take you longer than Saturday’s!
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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. The mini-poll is currently showing 70% in favour of hints only, so that’s the way it will stay for the time being. A full analysis of this puzzle will be available at 12.00 next Thursday, February 19th.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25852
Selected hints
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
As with last Saturday’s puzzle, there is nothing here to trouble the moderately experienced solver. 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, prepared by Peter Biddlecombe, will be available at 12.00 next Thursday, February 19th. Peter was Times crossword champion in 2000 and 2007 and is a pioneer in crossword blogging (see Times for the Times).
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2470
A harder than usual Sunday puzzle
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
I rated this as hard because I found it difficult to get started in three out of the four corners. Most of the answers are everyday words, but you do have to work a bit harder than with the weekday cryptics.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25846
Today’s puzzle I found a little easy for a Saturday
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment *
If you have come across here from Crossword ends in violence, then you probably have seen my contributions before. As I mentioned elsewhere on this site, I intend to give substantial hints and tips for the weekday crosswords, but for Saturday I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.
It’s been a struggle finding any clues worth giving hints, this is one of the easiest prize crosswords for a long time.
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