Toughie No 3608 by Elgar
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
I hope all our readers had an enjoyable day yesterday and are now enjoying their cold turkey.… Continue reading
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Elgar is John Henderson, who is also known as Enigmatist, Nimrod and Io, and has visited the blog as John H
Toughie 3600
Toughie No 3600 by Elgar
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
Elgar provides his usual mixture of a few gimmes and quite a lot of head-scratchers. I enjoyed battling through it. Thanks to him.
The clue which gave me most problems was 4d and I’m not totally convinced that I understand the ‘shepherd’ bit so do shout out if you have a better idea than mine. [Deansleigh61 has come to the rescue with the correct parsing – see his comment] Continue reading “Toughie 3600”
Toughie 3592
Toughie No 3592 by Elgar
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
Elgar is a smidgen trickier than he was two weeks ago but there are a host of cracking clues here and I enjoyed the challenge. When writing the hints I did notice the large number of reversals.
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Toughie 3584
Toughie No 3584 by Elgar
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Elgar is not quite at his most fiendish today but it’s all very clever and enjoyable. Thanks to him.
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Toughie 3576
Toughie No 3576 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Toughie 3568
Toughie No 3568 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
Toughie 3560
Toughie No 3560 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Elgar’s Proper Friday Toughie is a pangram, which may or may not help you finish solving the puzzle. Some nice helpful four-letter solutions together with a few longer ones that did take quite a bit of thought and muttering to parse!
Toughie 3552
Toughie No 3552 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Toughie 3544
Toughie No 3544 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
Toughie 3536
Toughie No 3536 by Elgar
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****