Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25865
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Tag: Crossword
ScrewedUp News – Mar 1
ScrewedUp News – Mar 1
Edition 6
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Two new problems today.
As reported by Father Brian, the Quick crossword No 40 is not yet available online.
A small change to ST Cryptic No 2473: Continue reading “ScrewedUp News – Mar 1”
ST Cryptic No 2473 – Hints
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2473
Selected hints by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
For the weekend prize crosswords I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them. A full analysis of this puzzle will be available at 12.00 next Thursday, March 5th.
Some hints to get you started: Continue reading “ST Cryptic No 2473 – Hints”
One Month Old Today
Big Dave’s Blog is One Month Old Today
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It seems like a lifetime, but it was one month ago today that I started this blog.
On 28th January, there were just 2 hits (both from me!). The following day I published my first Toughie review, and the hit count shot up to 26, with 5 of them actually looking at the review. The average now is between 750 and 1000 hits per day and the review for each puzzle gets looked at from 100 – 200 times for the Toughies up as high as 500 for the Daily cryptic. Continue reading “One Month Old Today”
ScrewedUp News – Feb 28
ScrewedUp News – Feb 28
Edition 5
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A couple of problems to report today.
The Giant General Knowledge crossword No 12251 is not yet available online.
There is a problem with Codewords No 1237. Continue reading “ScrewedUp News – Feb 28”
DT Cryptic No 25864 – Hints
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25864
Selected hints
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Toughie No 103
DT Cryptic No 25863
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25863
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
ST Cryptic No 2472 – Review
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2472 – Review
A full analysis by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
Writing up the Sunday puzzles is a very frustrating job. They tend to be difficult to finish, although this one was easier than most, but then you are left with the feeling of annoyance at some of the clues, which spoils any enjoyment you might have received from some of the others. This one has more of the annoying clues and less of the enjoyable ones. Continue reading “ST Cryptic No 2472 – Review”
DT Cryptic No 25858 – Review
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 25858 – Review
A full analysis by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
As many of you are aware, this crossword was accidentally released on the CluedUp website last Friday. Although it was subsequently replaced by the correct Friday puzzle, this was not before Libellule had reviewed it for us. Here is that review, revised to give all of the answers. BD
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