Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3308
A full review by crypticsue
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This puzzle was published on 16th March 2025
BD Rating –Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ****
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ST 3308 (Hints)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3308 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where the eponymous geese are returning from their winter trip to our Southern neighbours. I wonder if they are returning voluntarily or if they have been deported?… Continue reading
Toughie 3308
Toughie No 3308 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Osmosis has taken a leaf out of Beam’s book and given us a very enjoyable anagram-less puzzle. Thanks to him.
There’s a lot of cleverness on view in the grid. For a start we have (almost) a double pangram – there are no Hs but two of them are visible in the make-up of the grid. Also, we only have a single W but we do have a couple of spare Us (i.e. a double-U). Finally, and I don’t know how significant this is, several pairs of the higher scoring Scrabble letters appear separated by a single letter in the four quadrants (i.e. going clockwise from top-left Q?Q, X?X, Z?Z and J?J).
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