Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Shamus has given us a veritable Who’s Who of architects, engineers, outlaws, literary figures and a number of actors (only one Scot though on St. Andrews Day). I enjoyed it – how about you?
Please take the time to give your assessment of the puzzle by clicking on one of the stars below.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa where we are experiencing rainy and unseasonably mild weather (rather British-like, I suppose) after a snowfall last week. Today, Jay gives us an entertaining puzzle with a theme appropriate to the date. I breezed through the bottom half but struggled a bit with the top half (in particular, the northwest quadrant). Perhaps my Scottish ancestry influenced the enjoyment factor.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
With some of MynoT’s alphabetically themed puzzles it can take a while before the penny drops. With this one it became evident very quickly that it was an old pre-1971 penny!
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
There’s nothing too tricky today but it’s a solid puzzle and I enjoyed it. Let us know how you got on.
If you still can’t get an answer you may want to highlight the space between the brackets below the clue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment *****
This crossword from Rufus gets five stars for enjoyment because it is 25 years since his first Telegraph crossword was published. So I would like to add my congratulations to what I suspect will be many.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the more difficult clues and provide hints for them.
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Chaz returns to entertain us with another crossword that reveals his reading habits! Favourite clues are highlighted in blue. Let us what you liked and disliked in the comments below.
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a puzzle from old friend Chaz, back again after a three-month break. There is a bit of a theme running through this one. It was new to me but I managed to work it out.
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Big Dave is having a well-earned day off from the blog – he has gone to the Sloggers & Betters Convention in Derby. I do enjoy a nice S&B meeting but Derby is just too far away and so I have risen to the challenge and, as is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues have been selected and hints provided for them.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from the Calder Valley. Firefly is back with what I consider to be a real improvement on his last couple of challenges. Not the hardest of puzzles but one which brought about a bit of head-scratching and a reach for the history books.
Like Gazza earlier, I have been having real problems with the Telegraph website. I haven’t been able to access the site much this week and have been lucky that chums have sent me copies of the puzzles scanned from the papers. There are issues known around midnight, but as far as they are aware it should be OK at other times. I know that Phil McNeill, the Puzzles Editor, will usually take note when people mention having difficulties here. Of course if you have a problem that needs to be resolved, or want to register that a problem has occurred so that they know about it, you should contact Telegraph Customer Services via the site.