Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31067
A full review by crypticsue
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This puzzle was published on 25th October 2025
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
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Toughie 3575
Toughie No 3575 by Dharma
Hints and tips by ALP
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BD Rating – Toughie difficulty **+ – Enjoyment ****
Dharma’s back to tickle and tease, with engineered surfaces and fair definitions, as always. Some real graft here. All yours.
DT 31071
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31071
Hints and tips by Shabbo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning, fellow puzzlers and greetings from North Norfolk where we are enjoying our biannual week staying in an apartment overlooking Wells harbour. The weather has been remarkably kind to us, despite a little bit of rain yesterday afternoon.
Today’s plans include completing today’s blog and then a bit of birding at dusk followed by dinner with friends in the Wells Crab House. Any travel to the east will depend on a burst water main on the A149 having been repaired overnight. Fingers crossed. No real surprises on the birding front so far, but a couple of juvenile gannets and a red-breasted merganser at Titchwell on Tuesday are worthy of note.
Today’s puzzle doesn’t feel like Silvanus and it is definitely not RayT, so I will leave “Guess the Setter” in your capable hands, dear reader. I found it to be a bit tricky in parts, but an enjoyable solve. I will go along with the early commenters in making the very amusing 11a my CoD.
In the blog below, the definition element of each clue has been underlined, anagrams are CAPITALISED and the crossword technique “indicator words” are in brackets. The answers are concealed under the “Click Here” buttons. Please leave a comment telling us how you got on and what you thought of the puzzle.
Many thanks to our setter and to the DT Crossword Team.
EV 1717 (Solution)
Toughie 3574
Toughie No 3574 by Hudson
Hints and Tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty * – Enjoyment *****
DT 31070
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31070
Hints and Tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** Enjoyment ****
A very enjoyable midweek puzzle which is good fun – thanks to our setter.
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ST 3339 (Full Review)
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3339
A full review by Rahmat Ali
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This puzzle was published on 19th October 2025
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Kolkata. A straightforward and gentle puzzle from Dada this Sunday that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a full review of his puzzle for your kind perusal and valuable feedback. Continue reading “ST 3339 (Full Review)”
Toughie 3573
Toughie No 3573 by Chalicea
Hints and tips by Whybird
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ****
S’mae a chroeso i Ddydd Mawrth! Today finds The Present Lady Whybird and I in the North Wales village of Dolgarrog to celebrate a couple of anniversaries, notably our Wooden anniversary. As well as being the site of the world’s first man-made surf lagoon (sadly not currently operational) Dolgarrog has a poignant memorial garden commemorating the worst dam disaster in Wales, which includes some of the massive boulders washed down the hillside by the torrent almost hundred years ago to the day. On a less sombre note, the autumn colours in Bodnant garden are spectacular, although the hawfinches in Caerhun churchyard are as elusive as ever…
Chalicea has given us a very enjoyable, and (with one exception) not too tricky puzzle to start the Toughie week, so many thanks to her. Parsing 20a, and then having to use one of my lifelines to confirm my suspicions, has necessitated the extra half-star for difficulty. My favourites today are 22a and 15a, with the latter being my overall winner, even as a non-golfer.
Please leave a comment telling us how you fared and what you liked about the puzzle.
DT 31069
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31069
Hints and tips by Huntsman
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** Enjoyment ***/****.
A lovely bright & sunny autumnal day here in Harpenden. No golf unfortunately as my back is playing up once more & I’ve the flu & possibly Covid jab to look forward to this afternoon.
I thought today’s Anthony Plumb puzzle perhaps a tad trickier than of late but maybe that was just me. As ever there are an assortment of tunes to accompany the (hopefully correct for a change) hints.
In the hints below the definition element of each clue has been underlined, anagrams are CAPITALISED & the crossword technique “indicator words” are in brackets. The answers are concealed under the Click Here buttons. Please leave a comment below telling us what you thought & how you got on with the puzzle.
DT 31068
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 31068
Hints and tips by Falcon
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where we are still on summer time but the weather is anything but summery. As Senf mentioned yesterday, North America won’t switch back to standard time until next weekend meaning for the next week the time differential between Ottawa and the UK shrinks to four hours from the usual five hours and plays havoc with my sleep routine when I am on blogging duty. We are also disadvantaged in the spring – and for a longer period of time – as North America goes on summer time three weeks prior to the UK
I might venture out on a limb and attribute this puzzle to X-Type (with the usual caveat regarding my dismal setter identification record). I don’t believe many will find it too difficult but it does demonstrate that such puzzles can also be enjoyable. I struggled more with the so-called Quickie.
In the hints below, underlining identifies precise definitions and cryptic definitions, FODDER is capitalized, and indicators are italicized. The answers will be revealed by clicking on the ANSWER buttons.
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