Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26650
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
What with the horrible weather outside and the ongoing frustrations of CluedUp inside it’s not been a very happy morning. However I was cheered up by this enjoyable puzzle (when I eventually got it). Let us know your thoughts in a comment.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26649
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Many thanks to the maestro for my usual Monday mormimg entertainment.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2604 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 082
Box by Radler
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Radler has given us a highly enjoyable crossword today that was not too tricky and contains a lot of sex and a highly desirable form of confection. I have highlighted my favourite clues in blue.
Apologies for the late posting of the review. Every time I wanted to sit down and type it up, my wife got to the computer first and found me another job to do!
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Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 082
Box by Radler
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
After last week’s easier offering, this one from Radler is considerably harder. You need to get 6d as early as possible to help with the theme.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26648 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Saturday Crossword Club
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, and provide hints for them.
Feel free to let off steam about the continuing, non-lightning-strike related, problems on the site and the lack of recompense or honest explanations.
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Sloggers and Betters (Midlands) 2
The Waterfall, Derby – 26th November 2011
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A message from Peter Harvey, known on Fifteensquared as Kathryn’s Dad:
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Toughie No 626 by Elgar
Good Things Come in Threes
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Greetings from the Calder Valley. Thanks to Big Dave for covering while I had a wonderful week’s holiday in the Lake District last week. Three days after coming home and unpacking, I had to repack and spend a couple of days back in Calderdale Hospital.  Luckily I managed to escape last night and am now under the care of the District Nursing team for a few days.
We have the return of Elgar today with a fine puzzle that contains lots of things to make you smile, think and bang your head against the wall in equal measure. Although it’s my least favourite grid in the crossword world (each corner only has one way in, so if you get stuck you are really stuck!).  However there are some great clues that will have you scratching your head and appreciate Elgar’s magical craft.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2603
A full review by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Afternoon All!. We had a pretty tricky puzzle from Virgilius which I downgraded to *** difficulty as I was being a bit dense on the Sunday Solving. The enjoyment of the wordplay, however, warrants a **** in my book. What makes increases the difficulty here is Virgilius’ accomplishment of superb surface readings and aptly chosen synonyms – you look and gasp sometimes (particularly the two &Lit clues). There is a convincing story that is very difficult to crack to get the real definition.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26647
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Giovanni follows his excellent Toughie yesterday with a less tough but still very enjoyable back-page puzzle. How did you fare? Leave us a comment!
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