Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25933
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *
Toughie 148
Toughie No 148 by Kcit
Not as difficult as it looks
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I’m still struggling with the effects of Saturday’s hard drive crash combined with an Internet connection that is varying today from poor to non-existent. Will be back with this puzzle after a trip to the dentist. Can the day get any worse?
Well, I finally managed to get around to this puzzle, and it looked at first as if it was going to be difficult. However, the setter was very kind with all four long answers being anagrams. One or two curiosities, but overall not a bad puzzle.
DT 25932
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25932
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Once more we have an excellent Tuesday puzzle with some very entertaining surface readings. The layout of the grid encourages you to solve one corner at a time, and I was proceeding quite well until I reached the South-East corner which held me up for a while.
Can I point out to new readers (and to regular readers who have not yet read Big Dave’s FAQ!) that the curly brackets associated with each clue are not just there for artistic embellishment – the answer is hidden inside them, and if my hints are insufficient to give you the answer you can reveal it by selecting the space inside the brackets.
DT 25931
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25931
Hints and tips by Tilsit
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
One weak one this time round, with a couple of surplus articles, but nothing major to write home about.
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ST 2484 – Hints
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2484 – Hints
Selected Hints by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
I don’t always do this crossword, but if today’s is the standard which we can expect every week then I’ll be doing it regularly in future. I think it is excellent, and when selecting which interesting clues to give hints for, my problem was deciding which ones to leave out, rather than which ones to include. As usual a full analysis will appear next Thursday afternoon – in the meantime feel free to leave a comment, but please do not reveal any answers.
DT 25930 – Hints
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25930 – Hints
Selected Hints by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Big Dave is taking a well-deserved weekend off, so I’ve been volunteered to provide selected hints for today’s and tomorrow’s prize puzzles. As usual a full review of today’s puzzle by Peter Biddlecombe will appear next Thursday afternoon. I enjoyed doing this one, especially the cryptic clues.
Weekend Away!
This weekend, I am going away for a couple of days. Everything was planned until I had a power cut this morning. On rebooting the machine, I found that the hard drive was corrupted and I had to reload Windows. Two more power cuts and a lot of thumping of mouse and keyboard later I have managed to get back online, but with no time to do today’s hints.… Continue reading
Toughie 147
Toughie No 147 by Elgar
Another five star performance from Elgar
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Once again Elgar serves up a Toughie that is worthy of the name. Always tough, always enjoyable, each answer has to be carefully extracted.  Even after I had completed it, I still had to sort out the wordplay for four of the clues.
DT 25929
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25929
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
A tricky crossword today, but with some very good clues.
ST 2483 – Review
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2483 – Review
A full analysis by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
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