Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26963
Hints and tips by scchua
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I rate this about 1.5 for difficulty, and a 2.5 for enjoyment. The clues were not that difficult, and there were some nice surfaces too, eg. 17d and 25a. Thanks to setter.
At the request of our sponsor, I’m changing my spots, well half of them today, for a start. So it’s RIP to the style in the Across clues below (apparently some perceived it as near rocket science and/or written in a foreign language and/or outside their comfort zones and/or not chatty and/or too detailed and/or whatever). And hello to a more conformist style a la the Down clues below. Please comment, but, in order that I may respond intelligently, please be as specific as you can.
As usual, definitions are underlined in the clues, and clicking between the curly brackets brings up the answers (bold font) or bits of the answers (regular font).