Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30925
Hints and tips by Huntsman
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** Enjoyment ***
A beautifully sunny day here in Harpenden so a good afternoon walk beckons later this afternoon.
Today’s offering from the Prof is a typically enjoyable & reasonably gentle affair that ought not to pose too many issues. As ever the (hopefully correct) hints are provided along with the usual assortment of music clips. I’m not 100% confident about the Quickie pun (unless it’s enunciated by Jonathan Ross or Lucy Worsley) but can’t see owt else it could be.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30924
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where we find ourselves in the midst of a gorgeous spell of weather with temperatures in the mid 20s and not forecast to hit either the sizzling highs or frigid lows that Winnipeg is expecting this week as Senf reported yesterday. It is Tulip Festival time and the beautiful blooms are everywhere. The festival is especially meaningful this year coming on the heels of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands to which the event is so closely tied having been born out of the gift of tulip bulbs from the people of the Netherlands as a gesture of thanks to Canada for our leading role in the liberation of their country and for providing sanctuary to the Dutch royal family during the Second World War.
I suspect we owe our appreciation for this puzzle to X-Type, although my setter identification skills have often been proven sadly lacking. For those like myself who are partial to cryptic definitions, this was a real treat.
I must also express my appreciation to Senf for the answer to the Quickie pun. It was a true “phone a friend” (or, rather, email a friend) situation as the river at 8d would have frozen over before I got it on my own.
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Toughie No 3476 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***/****
Sparks has given us an enjoyable but not too tough pangram today. Thanks to him.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30922
Hints and tips by Shabbo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Apologies, but here I am again, standing in for Mr K who is under the weather. Get well soon.
I found this a bit of a head scratcher, but looking back, progress was actually quite steady, if a bit on the slow side. Of course this is nothing to do with an evening out last night with my brother and son around the wonderful pubs of historic St Albans.
I thought this was a lovely Friday puzzle, with ticks throughout. 1a was a great way to start and gets my CoD today, just beating 10a.
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Many thanks to our setter and the DT Crossword Team.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30917
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 3rd May 2025
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. A superb, lovely Saturday puzzle from NYDK that I enjoyed solving and further writing a review of the same for your kind perusal and significant feedback.
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Toughie No 3475 by Django
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ****
This is really great fun and not very tough. Many thanks to Django for the enjoyment.
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30921
Hints and tips by Huntsman
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** Enjoyment ***/****
Back home yesterday evening after 7 rounds of golf on successive days in the Algarve so my aching body certainly appreciated a night back in my own bed & it was a bit of a struggle getting up early this morning to do the blog.
I haven’t bothered to do the sums but it is the usual impressively low word count & an appearance of the trademark sweetheart that tells us it’s a Ray T production. I was grateful that it wasn’t taxing as I’m a little woolly headed this morning so hopefully the hints, if required, are correct.
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Toughie No 3474 by Kcit
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30920
Hints and tips by Senf
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
A very good Wednesday morning from Winnipeg where, with fluctuating temperatures, Spring sunshine continues. More importantly there has been very little precipitation and wildfires are already occurring!
For me, etc (I have to say that for Terence), a slightly more challenging but still very entertaining midweek puzzle but, even with the absence of the Reverend W A Spooner, I am not making any guesses as to whom the setter might be. Whomsoever it is, thank you. However, I do expect at least one magnificent answer to be condemned to purgatory on The List.
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