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DT 26141

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26141

Hints and tips by Gazza

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BD Rating – Difficulty ****Enjoyment ***

We have a Ray T puzzle today with some entertaining clues and one good belly laugh. As usual with Ray’s puzzles, the difficulties are not so much with the wordplay as in working out the relationship between the definition and the answer, and in a couple of clues today I thought that the elastic between the two was stretched a bit far. Do you agree or not? – in either case we’d love to get your comments.
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