Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26596
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Perhaps we’re going to get a “North American” week because, after yesterday’s Independence Day theme, today’s puzzle has a distinctly American flavour. It didn’t take me too long to solve and I wasn’t too impressed at first, but I did warm to it more when writing the review. What did you think?
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26595
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
An entertaining themed (but not too difficult) crossword today from Rufus.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26594 (Hints)
Big Dave’s Saturday Crossword Club
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.
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Toughie No 590 by Osmosis
In the Can!
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from the Calder Valley. Thanks to BD for helping out last Friday when my hospital appointment got messy. I managed to make the Crossword Meet at Birmingham the following day and it was a joy to meet up with Rufus and Eric Westbrook, as well as the other setters and solvers. Thanks to Anax for a grand day and there are some great pictures around especially those taken by Jane Teather. I’m not a fan of pictures of myself, but this is quite a decent one of me wrestling with the Anax special puzzle!
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26593
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
We have a fairly straightforward but entertaining puzzle from Giovanni today. Let us know how you got on with it.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26588
A full review by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Morning All!. It was fun to provide the hints on the day and my solving time put this into the 3-star territory although a few clues caused some discussion on the day so it may have been harder for some. Reviewing the puzzle a few days later I realized that there were loads of clues here which I found to be well constructed and have given it four stars for enjoyment.
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Toughie No 589 by Kcit
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Another fairly straightforward puzzle from Kcit which is on the easy side for a Toughie. Once I’d finished this puzzle I started on the one in today’s Times. That proved to be a real toughie and took me 3 or 4 times longer to complete than this one did. So if anyone feels like a challenge may I recommend today’s Times puzzle.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26592
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Another excellent puzzle from Ray T. I thought this one was a bit easier than usual.
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Toughie No 588 by Shamus
Shamus II (He’s back and this time he’s serious!)
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
For the second day in a row I’ve got a Shamus puzzle to review. I was convinced that this was going to be a pangram after getting 10a and 12a – it isn’t but it does have some really good clues and I enjoyed it.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26591
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hello from the Vega Baja. A pleasant, and not too hard, offering this week from our Wednesday Wizard. I seem to have used quite a bit of blue highlighter on this one so I’ve given it 4* for enjoyment.
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