Toughie No 1765 by Petitjean
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
What a delight to get another delightful posthumous puzzle from the much-missed Petitjean. Let’s hope that he’s left us several more.
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Across Clues
1a Leak to be fixed in vessel (8)
KEELBOAT – an anagram (fixed) of LEAK TO BE gives us a type of yacht with a heavy bottom to offset the weight of its sails.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28357
Hints and tips by 2Kiwis
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa and a special greeting with all our best wishes to the birthday boy.
At last we have the chance to be really positive about our summer weather. We are now getting warm sunny days with temperatures in the mid to high 20’s.… Continue reading
Toughie 1764 by Messinae
Hints and tips by Kitty
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***
Welcome, friends. Tuesday has come again, and so so have I. I found the NE corner no trouble, but had to beaver away a bit, especially in the south, to get some of the rest. It didn’t help that, becoming hopelessly entangled in the long anagram, I took ages to see 22/23a, which finally came all in a rush. … Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28356
Hints and tips by Mr Kitty
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Hello again from Enzed, and welcome to another enjoyable offering from one of our Tuesday setters. I’m back to blogging solo this week, but fans of Kitty should not fret because you will find the other half of the KitKat over on today’s Toughie blog.… Continue reading
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 28355
Hints and tips by Miffypops and Kim Kardashian
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment *** [allocated by BD, not Miffypops]
As you may well be aware MPs creator Dick Bruna passed away on the 16th February. Your poorly schooled orphan boy is so overcome by grief that he needed help to produce these hints and tips.… Continue reading
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
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.
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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
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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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”