NTSPP – 367
Regeneration by Phibs
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DT 28354 (Hints)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28354 (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.
Toughie 1763
Toughie 1763 by Elkamere
Hints and tips by KateR
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
A brilliant puzzle from Elkamere which didn’t seem overly difficult except for, well, a few difficulties experienced by each of us. We both made generally smooth progress but Dutch was somehow slowed down in NE and should have seen 8d much earlier. Meanwhile, Kitty found a few sticky spots at the end, and managed to have trouble parsing a couple of the clues.… Continue reading
DT 28353
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28353
Hints and tips by Deep Threat
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
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 28348
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28348
A full review by crypticsue
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This puzzle was published on Saturday 11th February
BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
Saturday Prize Puzzles aren’t quite what they used to be – they certainly take a smidgeon more teasing out, although there’s always room for an ‘old friend’ – this week’s ‘pal’ being 26a. Brian asked the other day that bloggers explain double definition clues, so I’ve done what he requested, and I hope it helps, particularly as we had several this Saturday.
Toughie 1762
Toughie No 1762 by Firefly
A puzzle of two halves
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***/****
Due to a number of email problems this review will be a little late today. A few days ago I lifted the attack status from the website. Today the attacks restarted, so we are back “under attack” which means the firewall with its five-second delay is also back. … Continue reading
DT 28352
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28352
Hints and tips by pommers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Morning all and welcome to a non-RayT Thursday. Nothing in this one to frighten any horses but there is plenty to entertain them. There seem to be a lot of clues requiring insertions and several are indicated in the same way which is my only criticism of an otherwise splendid puzzle.
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ST 2885
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 2885
A full review by gnomethang
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This puzzle was published on Sunday 5th February
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Morning All!. A very good puzzle with some very inventive clues and great surface readings (as always!) Continue reading “ST 2885”
Toughie 1761
Toughie No 1761 by Dada
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This is a very enjoyable puzzle from Dada – as usual the tricky bit with many of his clues is to isolate the definition.
I didn’t notice it so much when solving the puzzle but writing the hints brought home to me how many of the clues involve an insertion/container construct – exactly half of the 28.… Continue reading
DT 28351
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28351
Hints and tips by KiwiColin
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ***
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
The komplication with the Ks kontinues. Yesterday we had a different 2Ks writing the blog and today we just have 1K instead of the normal twosome. The world of kryptic krosswords is such a komplex kommunity!
We are having one of those rare things for this NZ summer.… Continue reading