January 12, 2011 – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

Toughie 492

Toughie No 492 by Osmosis

Wheels within Wheels

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BD Rating – Difficulty ***Enjoyment ****

Osmosis provides his usual complicated wordplay (though with fewer reversals than usual) but we have a full complement of x within y within z type clues. Apart from a suspect homophone I thought that it was very enjoyable.
I see that we’re approaching Toughie No. 500 which should appear on a Wednesday (lucky me!) – I wonder whether we’ll get an anniversary “special”.

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