Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30253
Hints and tips by Twmbarlwm
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ****/*****
Good morning. A superb example of a crossword with clues that are elegant and concise, deceptive but fair, and with consistently amusing surface readings. Continue reading “DT 30253”
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30252
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where it is finally feeling very springlike with the days rapidly getting longer and the snow cover quickly receding – the roads and driveways are bare but there is still two or three feet of the white stuff on lawns.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30251 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club (hosted by crypticsue)
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Toughie No 3028 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
A lovely puzzle from Osmosis with the usual cleverly-disguised definitions. And another near pangram, this time the Z is missing.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30245
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 11th Mar 2023
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. A very impressive Saturday puzzle from Cephas that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a review of the same for your kind perusal and important feedback and comment.… Continue reading
Toughie No 3027 by Kcit
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
I’m afraid my enjoyment of this puzzle was reduced a lot by the number of clues requiring the insertion and/or deletion of single letters.
Thanks to Kcit.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30249
Hints and tips by StephenL.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Good morning from a, weather wise, very uninspiring South Devon coast.
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Toughie No 3026 by Hudson
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ****
Another splendid crossword from Hudson Continue reading “Toughie 3026”
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30248
Hints and tips by 2Kiwis
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
Almost a frost the last two mornings but beautiful fine days following. ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ feels to be an appropriate quote.
We found this quite tricky in places and good fun to solve. Thought we were headed for a pangram but a final count showed that we were one letter short.… Continue reading