Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2598 (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.
NTSPP – 076 (Comments)
Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 076
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have yet another from the prolific Prolixic.
DT 26612 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26612 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Saturday Crossword Club
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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.
Toughie 602
Toughie No 602 by Firefly
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
Many thanks to Tilsit for agreeing to swap days with me this week so that I could spend yesterday on a course for investors (although the investments I made at Uttoxeter were not brilliant ones). Tilsit has had a lot of difficult Friday puzzles to contend with in recent weeks. Therefore I feel quite guilty about taking this one from him because it must be as easy a Friday Toughie that there has ever been. I have given it two stars for difficulty but that may be over-generous. Two stars for enjoyment as well because I wasn’t too taken with some of the clues and I was expecting something more challenging.
ST 2596
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2597
A full review by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Thanks once again to Virgilius for a superb start to Sunday – the crossword didn’t take that long to solve, so it was great to have time to enjoy the clues for a second time in order to prepare this review. Some of my favourite clues are marked in blue.
DT 26611
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26611
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This is an enjoyable puzzle from Giovanni to round off the working week. Give us your views in a comment.
If you need to see an answer just highlight the space between the curly brackets under the clue.
DT 26606
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26606
A full review by gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! This was a pretty archetypal Cephas puzzle which ticked all the right boxes for me and, reading the blog on the day, for all you guys as well. Whilst not difficult it did contain some very well worked clues. Continue reading “DT 26606”
3D Sloggers and Betters (Updated)
3D Sloggers and Betters in Cheltenham – August 6th (Updated)
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The next Sloggers and Betters get-together will be held in Cheltenham on Saturday August 6th starting at 1.00 pm at the Midland Hotel, 247 Gloucester Road, Cheltenham, GL51 8NW. The venue is right next to Cheltenham Spa station.
Toughie 601
Toughie No 601 by Shamus
Hints and tips by Tilsit
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from the Calder Valley. No, you haven’t slipped into a time warp and lost a day! Bufo and I have done a swap for this week and I am reviewing the Thursday Toughie. It’s nice to be able to get to grips with Shamus who is a fine setter in all his incarnations and is a really nice guy to boot (not that you should ever boot a crossword setter!).
Not as challenging as a Friday puzzle in truth, but this contained a few little nuggets that made me think. Nice to see a trademark pangrammatic puzzle as well [Oh no it isn’t – see the bottom of the post BD]. Some excellent surface readings and clever definitions that made me smile. A very pleasant solve and thanks to Shamus for today’s challenge.
DT 26610
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26610
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
This very enjoyable puzzle was two-star difficulty for me but I guess others might struggle. Today Ray T has given us no less than three answers which contain two words – a bit of a rarity.