Toughie No 2876 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Osmosis uses just 14 letters of the alphabet. Today is the first time I’ve been able to use this to my advantage: once I had a Y, I knew what the two algebraic variables were likely to be.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30022
Hints and tips by StephenL
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****/*****
Good morning folks, I’m back again, this time covering for Deep Threat. Continue reading “DT 30022”
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30017
A full review by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Another Cephas pangram Continue reading “DT 30017”
Toughie No 2875 by Kcit
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Thanks to Kcit for a fairly straightforward puzzle.
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Across Clues
1a Place swathed in unadulterated colour (6)
PURPLE: insert the map abbreviation for place into a synonym of unadulterated.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30021
Hints and tips by StephenL
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Good morning everyone from a sunny and warm South Devon.
Some less than obvious synonyms took me into 3* time but as enjoyable as ever. Continue reading “DT 30021”
Enigmatic Variations No 1543
Hard Bargain by Opsimath
Setter’s Blog
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Toughie No 2874 by Logman
Hints and tips by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Continue reading “Toughie 2874”
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30020
Hints and tips by KiwiColin
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
Just one Kiwi in the blogging chair this week.
Our procession of violent, wet cold fronts has now moved away and we are back to a much more acceptable type of winter weather. Crisp, frosty mornings preceding calm days with clear, blue skies.… Continue reading
Sunday Toughie No 20 by proXimal
Review by Sloop John Bee
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This puzzle was published on the 12th of June 2022
This was a tricky little devil that took me a lot longer to solve than the previous proXimal I blogged for the holidaying Deep Threat (Two days earlier #30,010). It is impressive how the other SJB (Steven J Bartlett) can pitch his puzzles with just the right level of difficulty between his back page and toughie puzzles. I believe I get one more go in DT’s blogging chair on the 1st of July, I wonder who I will get then.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3164
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 12th June 2022
BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment *****
Greetings from Kolkata. Dada has given us a very straightforward Sunday puzzle that was highly enjoyable. I now present to you again a full review of the same and would be happy to receive your valuable feedback.… Continue reading