Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26487
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Its bright and sunny here in the Touraine, so I was up nice and early to do the crossword and blog. I rapidly managed to fill the grid, only to leave a small hole in the top right hand corner. The answers to most of these clues also went in pretty quickly, except 9a, after some head scratching I reached for the dictionary. Thats a definition of form, that I was not aware of. Otherwise I enjoyed what is a typical Rufus crossword.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26486 (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 518 by Elgar
Got any small change, guv?
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
It’s that time of the month again. Time to wrestle with Elgar and today there was a nice mixture of the laugh-out loud and the sublimely clever. Did you spot the hidden theme? If not, look again at 3 down! One or two definitions that had me reaching for Mrs Bradford’s wonderful Dictionary.
Unfortunately a complicated day today means I have had to call on Big Dave to assist with the downs.
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Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2576
A full review by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Afternoon All!. This week we had a slightly more difficult puzzle from Virgilius but as usual it had some very witty clues and the trademark hidden words and cheeky constructions. Continue reading “ST 2576”
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26485
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Today’s Giovanni is not the most difficult that we’ve had, and there are a few old chestnuts (but there are always new solvers coming along so they won’t be old chestnuts for everybody). Let us know what you thought of it in a comment.
If you want to see an answer drag your cursor through the space between the brackets under the clue.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26480
A Full Review by Crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This crossword came at the end of a very strange week for the DT Cryptics with the usual order of level of difficulty being much disrupted, and the Prize Puzzle followed the trend being trickier than normal – still only 3* difficulty for me, although I appreciate others will have given it a 4* rating. Thanks to the Mysteron for setting us all the perfect challenge for a very very wet Saturday.
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Toughie No 517 by Shamus
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
I enjoyed this puzzle. I was becalmed for a while in the top left-hand corner but overall thought it of average difficulty.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26484
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
I hadn’t expected another Ray T puzzle as we had one last week – all the usual signs are there, so it must be him. For me, the best challenge of the week – and not a single answer of less than five letters!
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Toughie No 516 by Osmosis
Cogito Ergo Word Sum (I think I’ve got the wordplay)
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Afternoon All!. Gazza has graciously stepped aside this afternoon to let me have a bash at my first Toughie review. I must admit to a feeling of trepidation when I realized it was to be Osmosis as I sometimes struggle with him.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26483
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
While I enjoyed this puzzle and was able to complete it fairly readily, I found it considerably more of a challenge to review. I found that the clues ran the gamut – from quite simple to very tricky. For a while I thought it might merit 2* for difficulty, but a few clues whose wordplay left me scratching my head for quite some time caused me to rethink the rating.
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