Big Dave – Big Dave's Beta Retreat

New Theme

Update October 23, 2019

What I hope will be the final changes to the “Big Dave 2019” theme. have been implemented There are a small number of cosmetic changes, but the big difference is in the Responsive Design – a posh way of saying that the theme adjusts according to the width of the display. While a desktop may be able to vary the size of the browser window, for ther devices, such as phones and tablets, this is usually a fixed size. Continue reading “New Theme”

DT 28378 (Hints)

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28378 (Hints)

Big Dave’s Saturday Crossword Club

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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.

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DT 28372 (Hints)

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28372 (Hints)

Big Dave’s Saturday Crossword Club

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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.

Continue reading “DT 28372 (Hints)”

DT 28366 (Hints)

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28366 (Hints)

Big Dave’s Saturday Crossword Club

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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.

Continue reading “DT 28366 (Hints)”

MPP – 057 (Review)

Monthly Prize Puzzle – 057

February 2017

Substitutions by Alchemi

Congratulations to Gazza, who has entered the competion many times, is usually first or second to submit his answer, but had yet to win.  Well, Mrs BD has changed that and drawn his name fom the electronic hat so that he can claim his choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books published by Hamlyn.

This month solvers had to follow the instructions:

All clues are normal, and all grid entries are real words and phrases.Continue reading

DT 28360 (Hints)

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28360 (Hints)

Big Dave’s Saturday Crossword Club

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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.

Continue reading “DT 28360 (Hints)”

CrypticCrosswords.net unavailable

Update 11:00 am

Normal servie now appears to be resumed.  The Prize crossword will now close at midnight tonight.  If you are still having access problems please let me know via a comment on this post.

The CrypticCrosswords.net website is currently unavailable.  While this is being investigated I have decided to extend the deadline for the February Prize Puzzle.  This will also mean that the review will not be available until after the new deadline, which will be announced when normal service has been resumed.