Toughie No 2774 by Serpent
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Serpent provides a Toughie of a difficulty level right in the middle of the Toughie spectrum. Continue reading “Toughie 2774”
Toughie No 2750 by Serpent
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Serpent provides a proper mid-week Toughie Continue reading “Toughie 2750”
Toughie No 2726 by Serpent
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Serpent can always be relied on to provide the solver with a nicely challenging crossword, Continue reading “Toughie 2726”
Toughie No 2709 by Serpent
Hints and tips by Miffypops
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
The sun has got his hat on. Hip hip hip hooray
The sun has got his hat on and he’s coming out today
About time too.
As for today’s puzzle from serpent Continue reading “Toughie 2709”
Toughie No 2678 by Serpent
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
Serpent has given us a proper Toughie to solve this grey and gloomy Wednesday morning. Continue reading “Toughie 2678”
Toughie No 2643 by Serpent
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
In terms of difficulty this is about par for a midweek Toughie.… Continue reading
Toughie No 2623 by Serpent
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
A proper Toughie as we’d expect from Serpent. Continue reading “Toughie 2623”
Toughie No 2587 by Serpent
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ****/***** – Enjoyment ***
You can usually rely on Serpent to give us both a proper Toughie and a Nina and that’s definitely the case today. Continue reading “Toughie 2587”
Toughie No 2563 by Serpent
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Serpent always gives us something extra and today he’s excelled by providing a pangram without the single most common letter in English (although its shape does make a few appearances in the grid).… Continue reading
Toughie No 2539 by Serpent
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Thanks to Serpent for an enjoyable and not too tricky puzzle.… Continue reading