Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31156
Hints and tips by Mr K
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BD Rating - Difficulty **** - Enjoyment ***
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. Continue reading "DT 31156"
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DT 31151 (Full Review)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31151
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 31st January 2026
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. A lovely straightforward Saturday puzzle from the setter that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a review of the same for your kind perusal and significant feedback. Continue reading “DT 31151 (Full Review)”
EV 1731 (Solution)
Toughie 3631
Toughie No 3631 by Beam
Hints and tips by ALP
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BD Rating – Toughie difficulty * – Enjoyment ***/****
Standard Beam fare – a sweetheart, a queen and an imaginative, tight word count … but no lavatorial humour today. Who could he have been listening to?! Over to you.
DT 31155
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31155
Hints and Tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** Enjoyment ***
I don’t think that there’s much to frighten the horses in this enjoyable puzzle. Thanks to our setter.
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Toughie 3630
Toughie No 3630 by Donnybrook
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
DT 31154
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31154
Hints and Tips by Deansleigh
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** Enjoyment *****
Good morning from a chilly but sunny south Hampshire. Today we have another excellent back-pager, with so many fine clues it was hard to choose a favourite. I especially liked 1a, 9a, 19a, 2d and 3d, but topping the podium for me today is the tipsy clergyman in 8d. Many thanks to today’s setter. Continue reading “DT 31154”
Sunday Toughie 209 (Review)
Sunday Toughie No 209 by Samuel
Review by Sloop John Bee
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This puzzle was published on the 25th of January 2026
ST 3353 (Full Review)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3353
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 25th January 2026
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. A superb and lovely puzzle from Dada this Sunday that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a full review of the same for your kind perusal and valuable feedback. Continue reading “ST 3353 (Full Review)”
Bridge House 2 by Prolixic
Bridge House 2
by Prolixic
Reviewed by Snowman
A pdf of the puzzle is available here Bridge House 2
Thanks to Prolixic for this, the second of two puzzles he created for this year’s Birthday Bash, along with appreciation for the time he devotes to the crossword community generally such as creating an excellent guide to the construction of cryptic crossword clues (which is available to download from CrypticCrosswords.net) and reviewing Rookie Corner every week. Thanks also to SJB for organising the bash and blogging the prize Toughie every Sunday.
I thought this was tricky, perhaps in the Toughie class, but there are plenty of back pager level clues to get you going. Well worth a go.
I have provided hints below. There are a couple of references to Wiktionary, which should be treated with suitable caution.
SJB’s Notes. Thanks for the thanks and for doing the blog for this Snowman. I was getting worried about my “job” as Sunday Toughie blogger, as you not only spotted the fourth definition in 10a, you also parsed 25a better than my early efforts. I am not sure if you could call it a Nina, but there are several references to the blog (6a), the nature of the celebration (20d) and a couple that reference the age of Big Dave’s Blog (11a,15a and maybe 26d). If there are more than those, I hope Prolixic can explain.
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