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DT 29917

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29917

Hints and tips by Mr K

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BD Rating  -  Difficulty *** Enjoyment ****

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Tuesday. We have a very fine puzzle today, which I am 99% sure was created by regular Tuesday compiler X-Type. Many smiles came out of this solve. I needed the delete key a couple of times after being tempted to enter an answer that seem to fit the definition, only to find later that it didn't fit the checkers. Should have just left those slots blank when I couldn't parse them immediately.  Continue reading "DT 29917"