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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Tilsit is unavailable today and I have spent most of the morning sorting out the site, including a raft of problems (at the blogging end) introduced by the WordPress upgrade and a rogue plugin (the Guestbook one, now disabled) that used up over 5gb of the 6gb available. The hints are here, albeit a little late.
As is usual with Osmosis it took longer to fully resolve the wordplay than it did to complete the puzzle.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs this bright Good Friday morning.
As usual from Giovanni, some obscure words but fair wordplay. ** difficulty for me.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
The Saturday Mysteron seems to have upped the difficulty level for his last couple of appearances which for me anyway increases the enjoyment factor.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment **
A frustrating crossword. I did over half of it with no effort and thought it was going to be a one- or two-star difficulty puzzle. Then I started having problems though for most clues I could see what the answer must be but couldn’t unravel the wordplay. Last week I commented that it was nice not to have any tricky four-letter answers. I wish I could say the same this week. I didn’t particularly enjoy the time spent sorting out the last few answers. Because of this I upped the difficulty rating and lowered the enjoyment rating
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Ray T tests our vocabulary like no other setter in this very enjoyable puzzle.
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Morning All! This was one of my quickest Sunday solves as everything fell into place quite nicely. Still lots of fun to complete and running through the wordplay was a delight as ever.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Thanks to Micawber for compiling yet another masterly Toughie – not too demanding for the solver but full of humour and enjoyment.
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As expected, Jay delivers another enjoyable, accessible puzzle. A little over 1.5* difficulty for me, and 3* for enjoyment. Thanks Jay.
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A straightforward Toughie to start the week, although I think our setter was in fighting mood when she worked on some of the clues!
{ That's good news. Most of the changes affect the maintenance... } – 19 Apr, 7:22 am { I found out what was putting it there and removed... } – 19 Apr, 7:20 am
{ What black line ? :-) } – 18 Apr, 11:25 pm { Thanks to Giovanni and to Deep Threat for the review... } – 18 Apr, 11:21 pm
{ Nor me! } – 18 Apr, 10:28 pm
{ I took quite a while to get a foothold in... } – 18 Apr, 10:05 pm
{ I just could not get into this puzzle. Ah, well.... } – 18 Apr, 10:11 pm
{ Thanks for explaining 11a BD - I was initially thinking... } – 18 Apr, 8:07 pm
{ As with the back-pager, it was the NE corner that... } – 18 Apr, 7:54 pm
{ Bit of a struggle but worth it for 8d. } – 18 Apr, 5:55 pm { Welcome to the blog Hazybelle From the soon-to-be-published hints: 24a... } – 18 Apr, 3:42 pm
{ Loved it but it took me until Thursday to finish... } – 18 Apr, 1:47 pm
