Toughie No 3772 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Thanks to Sparks for a very enjoyable puzzle containing some cunning bits of misdirection.… Continue reading
Tag: Telegraph
DT 31366
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31366
Hints and tips by Mr K
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BD Rating - Difficulty **** - Enjoyment ***
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. Continue reading "DT 31366"
Toughie 3771
Toughie No 3771 by Kcit
Hints and tips by ALP
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BD Rating – Toughie difficulty * – Enjoyment **/***
Very relaxed for a Thursday Toughie, with a one-in-four anagram count adding further grease to the wheel. Is it just me or is the leap to a Friday Elgar growing wider by the week? ‘Twas alway a step-up – and rightly so – but the gap now seems interplanetary! The floor, as ever, is yours.
Toughie 3770
Toughie No 3770 by Silvanus
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Unusually for both a Wednesday and a Silvanus crossword, I found this to be a proper Toughie – my favourite Across clue was 28a and my favourite Down clue was 8d, as both of them mde me smile
DT 31364
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31364
Hints and Tips by Deansleigh
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BD Rating – Difficulty * Enjoyment ****
Good morning everyone, and welcome to the midweek back-pager blog. For me, today’s puzzle was fairly gentle for a Wednesday – about the same level of difficulty as yesterday’s and Monday’s crosswords. One of the answers was a word I hadn’t come across before, but was fairly clued.
Amongst my favourite clues were 9a, 29a and 23d, but tying for first place are 22a (a lovely word) and 28a, which brought the biggest laugh of the day. Many thanks to our setter.
Toughie 3769
Toughie No 3769 by Beam
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
Whybird is abroad on work-related matters this week so I’m standing in for him.
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DT 31363
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31363
Hints and tips by Huntsman
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BD Rating – Difficulty * Enjoyment ***
A slightly dreary start to the day here in Harpenden but the rain isn’t due to arrive until later this evening so may take advantage of the fact that my new golf course is on the doorstep & play a few holes this afternoon.
After last week’s considerably trickier than usual Tuesday offering this one is an unmistakably gentle Anthony Plumb production that I felt was on a par with Heron’s puzzle yesterday in terms of difficulty. Though I enjoyed the solve & there were some neat surfaces it perhaps wasn’t the Prof at his sparkling best in my view so it’ll be interesting to see what others make of it.
Gazza is subbing for Whybird over in t’other place where Ray T is on duty with a fairly gentle & very enjoyable Beamer that is well worth a look at.
As usual there is a selection of music to enjoy or ignore.
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Sunday Toughie 245 (Hints)
Sunday Toughie No 245
by proXimal
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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I found this from proXimal at the tougher end of my ability spectrum, not because of the Spooner that fell early doors, but one of the compound anagrams had a tricky to spot definition in the middle. I was on the verge of phoning a friend just before the penny dropped!
I hope you have an easier time than I did, but I will try and give a nudge if you ask.
The brass bands on Wetherby Ings are finished for the season, so even if we have a blue sky today, Mama Bee and I won’t be going far
Here we go, Folks…
ST 3389 (Hints)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3389 (Hints)
Hints and tips by Senf
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where the word FR*ST is beginning to appear in weather forecasts and reports!
For me, and I stress for me,© same as last week, Dada very friendly once I had cracked two or three clues. Four long ‘uns, six anagrams (two partials), one lurker, and two homophones, all in a symmetric 32 clues; with 16 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, all BRB verified where necessary, you should/might be able to get some of the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues. I hope you have your Crimson Tomes at hand! You might even need your favourite e-search ‘assistant’!
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DT 31361 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31361 (Hints)
The Saturday Crossword Club
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