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ST 3355 (Hints)

Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3355 (Hints)

Hints and tips by Senf

A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where on Wednesday, after what seems to be the customary one hour delay for my flight from Heathrow to Calgary, my flight from Calgary to Winnipeg arrived 20 minutes early!  However, definitely better than my ‘outbound’ journey two weeks earlier.  The joys of air travel!

For me, and I stress for me,© Dada quite friendly with only, yes only, four anagrams (one partial), one lurker, and one homophone in a symmetric grid of 30 clues; with 15 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid you should/might be able to get some of the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues. I hope you have your Crimson Tomes at hand!

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If it is some time since you read, or if you have never read the instructions in RED below the hints then please consider doing so before commenting today as my electronic blue pencil is at the ready and the Naughty Step is OPEN!

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DT 31151 (Full Review)

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31151

A full review by Rahmat Ali

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This puzzle was published on 31st January 2026

BD Rating – Difficulty **Enjoyment ****

Greetings from Kolkata. A lovely straightforward Saturday puzzle from the setter that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a review of the same for your kind perusal and significant feedback. Continue reading “DT 31151 (Full Review)”

Toughie 3631

Toughie No 3631 by Beam
Hints and tips by ALP

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BD Rating – Toughie difficulty * Enjoyment ***/****

Standard Beam fare – a sweetheart, a queen and an imaginative, tight word count … but no lavatorial humour today. Who could he have been listening to?! Over to you.

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