Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26430
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
I enjoyed this puzzle (from Jay?) in spite of missing the obvious hidden word at 1a until the very end!
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Toughie 479
Toughie No 479 by Cephas
The lull before the storm!
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Cephas gives us a very gentle start to the week – it could well get tougher in the run-up to Christmas!
DT 26429
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26429
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Apologies for the late posting, which was due to my loss of broadband for about 90 minutes. This appears to be a puzzle by Ray T, doing a bit of moonlighting from his new Thursday patch. Whoever it is has given us a whole host of double-entendres in what I thought was an amusing and entertaining puzzle. Give us your views in a comment!
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DT 26428
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26428
Hints and tips by Libellule
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Usual Rufus, always enjoyable, although I thought this was bit more complicated than normal, but thats probably down to the bad cold I have at the moment. I wasn’t too thrilled about 8d and 13d, but I did like 9a and 15d. Since this will be my last blog before Christmas, can I wish you all (and Rufus) a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
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DT 26427 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26427 (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.
Toughie 478
Toughie No 478 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Tilsit
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
As usual, the Friday Toughie is the hardest of the week, and today’s is certainly at the top end of that scale. There were some really excellent clues, and I confess to having a few wrong answers at first, due to guessing. I had a couple of hassles with the top right corner as I struggled with the wordplay.
I suppose we have been spoiled this week with Notabilis’ excellent puzzle on Wednesday because I felt I didn’t quite enjoy this as much. I thought 6d was a bit of a weak clue and a couple of others were to me less than satisfactory. I don’t like the way punctuation is sometimes used as a device to mislead, or produce a clever surface reading.
ST 2566
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2566
A full analysis by Peter Biddlecombe
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment *****
Posting in a bit of haste as now much busier than I used to be, so no link to Shenandoah for 25A. If you imagine the same introduction as most of the ones for the last year, you won’t be wrong! I liked the smell of the sea at the end of the Acrosses.
DT 26426
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26426
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
We have the usual Friday entertainment from Giovanni today. Let us know how you found it in a comment. Any errors on my part today can be put down to writing the blog at the same time as watching the cricket from Perth (a bit of a setback for England!).
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DT 26421
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26241
A Full Review by Gnomethang
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
A pretty standard puzzle from Cephas this week with a couple of niggles/unknowns for me – please help me out if you think I have misrepresented a solution.
Toughie 477
Toughie No 477 by Excalibur
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I found this to be an agreeable puzzle of average difficulty. I did struggle with the last answer (14 down) but I got there eventually.