Toughie No 1847 by Elgar
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Another corker from Elgar. This is his 119th Toughie puzzle, and the 15-letter Nina relates to that.… Continue reading
DT 28479
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28479
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Devon, where I’m playing in a croquet tournament this week.… Continue reading
DT 28474
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28474
A full review by gnomethang
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This puzzle was published on Sunday 2nd July
BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ***
Morning All! This probably would have been a one star time if I were not enjoying the conversations in Macclesfield. There were a few easy starters and a few that took a bit of parsing.
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Toughie 1846
Toughie No 1846 by Shamus
Hints and tips by Kitty
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ****
Hi everybody. As I was remiss and didn’t include pictures on Tuesday I am required to make up the time on today’s puzzle. … Continue reading
DT 28478
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28478
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Morning all and welcome to another RayThursday.  It was a game of two halves for me. I went through the across clues and only got four of them so I thought I might be in for a fair old struggle. Then I went through the downs and got all but three so with all those checkers in place the puzzle just sort of rolled over and wanted its tummy tickled.  It was a bit of fun while it lasted but I’m sure some of you will have had a different experience. Continue reading “DT 28478”
ST 2906
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2906
A full review by gnomethang
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This puzzle was published on Sunday 2nd July
BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment ***
Morning All! This comes to you from the beautiful and sunny city of Vienna/Wien in Austria. I’m flying back today after a couple of days work which I managed to finish overnight on the first day. This meant that I had an opportunity to have a wander around and sampple the sights and sausages. A place to recommend.
This was a solid puzzle that I solved very quickly but I think that I just got lucky.
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Toughie 1845
Toughie No 1845 by Firefly
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **/***
I have to say that I wasn’t overly enamoured with this one when I solved it – the four peripheral answers all went in very quickly and there are a lot of anagrams of various types (none very tricky), so the whole thing was over without any significant hold-ups.… Continue reading
DT 28477
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28477
Hints and tips by 2Kiwis
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ***
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Kia ora from Aotearoa.
        We are having a rather nasty wintry storm system moving up the country at present.… Continue reading
Toughie 1844
Toughie No 1844 by Giovanni
Hints and tips by Kitty
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***
Hello, and welcome to another Toughie week. … Continue reading
DT 28476
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28476
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Mr Kitty is off on his travels.… Continue reading