If all else fails look for a you know what (entering) the last two words in the clue.ġ5a Container filled with grit, else toxic spirit (11)Ī three letter container, used in cookery, containing (filled with) an anagram (toxic) of GRIT, ELSE.ġ9a For example, a gramophone record artist (6)Īnother double definition, I suppose – the first could be applied to a gramophone record as it does do what is implied while it is being played.Ģ5a Member welcomed by man - top, say? (7)Ī member, as in a limb, as part of our bodies inserted into (welcomed by) a four letter synonym of man.Ī three letter term equivalent to caused injury and a generic type of (young) female – guess a girl comes later.ġd Certainly not a hundred drunk by spy, single glass (7)Ī two letter simpler way of saying certainly not and a Roman hundred all contained (drunk) by a synonym of spy.Ĥd Something to climb over drunk locates round back of pub (8)Īn anagram (drunk) of LOCATES containing (round) the last letter (back) of puB.ĩd The two are not, I gathered, rats! (11)Ī single word equivalent to the two and an anagram (gathered) of ARE NOT I.ġ6d Fielder’s skill is absent in this sport (8) Who doesn’t like a straightforward double definition to start? The first is used singly or in multiples by a player in any number of games.Īnother double definition – the second indicates a, perhaps, rough estimate of a quantity.ġ4a Pace of horse entering American territory (6)
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Another useful page is Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, which features words with meanings that are not always immediately obvious.Ī full review of this puzzle will be published after the closing date for submissions. Where the hint describes a construct as “usual” this means that more help can be found in The Usual Suspects, which gives a number of the elements commonly used in the wordplay.
Most of the terms used in these hints are explained in the Glossary and examples are available by clicking on the entry under “See also”. Sunday Telegraph Cryptic No 3163 (Hints) Hints and tips by SenfĪ very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg – where the ‘rain numbers’ are in for the three months of Meteorological Spring – 299mm compared to an average of 123mm, the second ‘wettest’ Spring in the last 150 years and most of that fell in April and May as a result of six back to back Colorado Lows.įor me, Dada reasonably gentle with a sprinkling of oldies but goodies and 35% of the clues being anagrams (full or partials), nine altogether (with four partials), one lurker, and no homophones – all in a symmetric 26 clues with 13 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid you should be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues.Ĭandidates for favourite – 10a, 19a, 25a, 9d, 17d, and 21d.Īs is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, a number of the more difficult clues have been selected and hints provided for them.ĭon’t forget to follow BD’s instructions in RED at the bottom of the hints!
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