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DT 30602

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30602

Hints and tips by 2Kiwis

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Kia ora from Aotearoa.
We were delighted to discover that the puzzles were still available on the old site so did not have to wrestle with the vagaries of the new site to get what we needed to put this blog together.… Continue reading

Toughie 3261

Toughie No 3261 by Dada
Hints and tips by ALP

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I don’t know whether it’s holiday brain or the shock of realising that I’m no more sensible on a Turkish moped than I was aged 16 but I made (quite unnecessarily) heavy weather of this to start.… Continue reading

DT 30600

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30600

Hints and tips by pommers

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Hola from Almoradí where spring seems to have taken a break. The weather has turned cold and wet and it was so dark yesterday that we had the light on in the kitchen all day! Today’s looking pretty much the same! The forecast says that normal service won’t be resumed until Thursday!

Nothing to frighten the horses today but 18d did give me “pause for thought” as they say.  There’s six clues involving anagrams so there’s plenty of checkers easily available. I don’t think many of you will need the hints today.
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