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DT 31138

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31138
Hints and Tips by crypticsue

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BD Rating – Difficulty  ***  Enjoyment ***

Mr K is traveling at the moment and unable to blog so at very short notice I’ve set up the clues and answers and underlined the definitions. I’ve no time to write the hints so feel free to contribute hints for individual clues – I’ll incorporate good ones in the blog later.

Update:  As Gazza is also blogging the Toughie, I have stepped in to provide some hurried hints for the backpager.   I’m sure I’ve made lots of mistakes but if you point them out, please tell us what you thought of the crossword at the same time.

Difficult to tell at the speed at which I was solving, parsing and typing, but it did seem to be that there were a lot of repeated clue devices throughout

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