Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25882
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Nothing too obscure this Saturday, just a good honest prize puzzle. The usual few hints to get you started.
We will get Peter Biddlecombe’s view on this puzzle, and on the “cornery” grid that has been used, in his full review – to be published at 12.00 on Thursday, 26th March.
Next Monday a new reviewer joins the team. Tilsit will already be known to avid followers of fifteensquared, and his credentials include answering questions on Crosswords, as his specialist subject, on Mastermind.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25876
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
This is a moderately difficult puzzle, with one or two difficult words and a lesser known town in Somerset. The usual few hints to get you started.
A full review of this puzzle, by crossword blogging veteran Peter Biddlecombe, will be published at 12.00 on Thursday, 19th March.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25870
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Today’s prize crossword is a little harder than recent Saturday puzzles, but mainly because of the use of place names in several of the answers, and in one case as part of the wordplay. The usual few hints to get you started.
A full review of this puzzle, by crossword blogging veteran Peter Biddlecombe, will be published at 12.00 on Thursday, 12th March.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25864
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
It seems to be a regular occurrence that the Saturday puzzle is an easy one. As this is a prize crossword, I will be publishing just a few hints to get you started. A full review of this puzzle, by crossword blogging veteran Peter Biddlecombe, will be published at 12.00 on Thursday, 5th March.
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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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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25852
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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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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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