Herculis Crossword

[brainiac]

What on earth has happened to the Herculis? Reduced prize money, and very easy clues: "the noise a pig makes" - oh per-lease! Are the Barclay brothers having an economy drive?

[lysander]

I was very surprised to finish it without consulting Answerbank. Did not notice the reduced prize money.I won a pen some time ago and although very pleased to have won I changed to the general knowledge in the hope of winning some money.Plus the glory!!

[Pangolin]

Thank God it isn't just me! Bank holiday and you look forward to a bit of a challenge and what do you get? Mind you this may be part of some bigger plan, look what happened to Sunday's crosswords!

[skybluefred]

i have won the herculis puzzle and received �500 prize.now that the prize has been reduced i will cancel the telegraph and try the times instead.who wants a telegraph parker pen anyway?? just phone saga for an insuarance quote and you,ll get a parker pen free gratis every year.

[Stretts]

The money would be nice but I enjoy the challenge - anyway the chance of the Royal Mail actually delivering my answers is even less than me winning - even thought about recorded delivery! winge winge winge

[Argee]

I did the crossword without noticing that the prize money had been reduced. Surely everybody wants a "unique" Telegraph pen! Is it worth �250?

[Elspeth]

Why don't we all contact the Telegraph and ask why they are stopping/reducing prize money? First the Sunday Telegraph, now Monday's Herculis - is there a pattern emerging here?

[frankleigh]

I have to agree - it was disappointingly easy today - I didn't even have to move from the settee today, and finished both Sudokus, the Codeword and Herculis in about half an hour. Where's the challenge/fun in that?

[columbus]

what a set of whingers. i assume you are all pensioners and isuppose you had to find somewhere else to moan now that you don't have to queue for your pension.

[shaneystar2]

Never assume anything columbus...pensioners or not the object of a crossword is to have something to challenge the mind and give the grey matter a workout whether you are seventeen or seventy.
If you win that's a bonus.
Hopefully you will receive your pension one of these days.

And...when a quality broadsheet dumbs down it's crosswords it is annoying.
I quite agree brainiac ...a child could have completed Herculis today in about five minutes.
And many congrats skybluefred..good job you won before they reduced the prize money !!

[RAMEAUX]

They must have a surplus stock of Telegraph pens !! and want to shift them and save some money at the same time. I find the chance of winning such an easy puzzle must be at so long odds so not worth the postage or the price of the Telegraph.

[brainiac]

Glad you (nearly) all agree that it's been dumbed down. I won the �280 Cross pen in The Sunday Times last year so am not really interested in another pen (certainly not one that probably has Dail;y Telegraph written on it) - would rather hard cash ! But above all it's about the challenge.....

[Nosmo King]

What does Herculis mean anyway?

[shaneystar2]

It's the General Knowledge crossword in Mondays Daily Telegraph..The highlighted clues match with the highlighted clues from Saturdays GK crossword in the Telegraph,to make a two word term .