Friday – Big Dave's Beta Retreat

DT 28377

 

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28377

Hints and tips by Deep Threat

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Céad míle fáilte from South Staffs this St Patrick’s day morning. Here’s some suitably festive music

A reasonably straightforward Giovanni this week, with some nice anagrams to get you going. On the other hand, it took me ages to work out the Quick Crossword pun…

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DT 28371

 

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28371

Hints and tips by Deep Threat

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Good morning from South Staffs where it’s cloudy but mild. My thanks to ShropshireLad for filling in for me last week.

A touch of geography from Giovanni this week, and one or two less common words, but nothing particularly difficult.

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DT 28365

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28365

Hints and tips by ShropshireLad

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Good Morning from a rather damp, dreich and dismal Shropshire. I have been given the opportunity to review this Pangram puzzle from Mr Manley as Deep Threat is engaged elsewhere. It’s been a while since I last blogged – so please forgive me if I’m a bit rusty.… Continue reading

DT 28359

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28359

Hints and tips by Deep Threat

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Good morning from a sunny South Staffs. Storm Doris has blown away, leaving us, fortunately, with just a couple of small branches to clear up: others in the region have been rather worse affected.

Giovanni’s unusual word count is back up this week, after a couple of more gentle offerings, but the wordplay should enable solvers to arrive at the answer.… Continue reading

DT 28353

 

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28353

Hints and tips by Deep Threat

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Good morning from South Staffs where after some brightness yesterday the relentless gloom of this winter has returned. At one stage yesterday it looked as though I might have difficulty posting this set of hints, but – fingers crossed – it seems that BD and Cloudflare have fought off the barbarians again.… Continue reading

DT 28347

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28347

Hints and tips by Deep Threat

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Good morning from South Staffs on a cold, grey day.

I fairly rattled through today’s Giovanni, with nothing causing any hold-up.

In the hints below, the definitions are underlined. The answers are hidden under the ‘Click here!’ buttons, so don’t click if you don’t want to see them.… Continue reading

DT 28341

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28341

Hints and tips by Deep Threat

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Good morning from South Staffs, where the day has started bright and sunny.

I wasn’t sure quite what to make of today’s puzzle. I had the grid filled in ** time, but have added another star because it took me a little longer to be sure of the parsing of some clues.… Continue reading