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Day: 23rd February 2020

Times 27595 – Not too fishy….

Author   vinyl1Posted on 23rd February 2020 at 10:09 PM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

No time tonight – solved while watching golf on TV.   If you do a puzzle intermitently, you tend not to notice if it’s easy or hard, unless it’s very hard, in which case you have … Read more “Times 27595 – Not too fishy….”

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Sunday Times 4890 by Robert Price – ouch!

Author   keriothePosted on 23rd February 2020 at 1:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

36:54. An absolute stinker from Bob this week. I had most of it done within about 15 minutes but I was left with two or three unsolved in the NW, NE and SW corners and … Read more “Sunday Times 4890 by Robert Price – ouch!”

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Mephisto 3103 – Don Manley

Author   glhPosted on 23rd February 2020 at 12:11 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

Fun puzzle this one, with some juicy wordplay. My favorite part of Mephisto is finding new words from clever wordplay, and this puzzle had a lot of that. 9 down took me back, with the … Read more “Mephisto 3103 – Don Manley”

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