Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
No themes today, just a straightforward puzzle from our usual Friday setter. Let us know how you got on.
If you need to reveal an answer just highlight the gap between the brackets under the troublesome clue.
Continue reading “DT 27066”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment **
Morning All! This is the review of last Saturday’s Prize Puzzle. I really found this too straightforward to be a real challenge and reviewing found an awful lot of charades and anagrams of a very similar form. A couple of nice cryptic definitions though.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment **
Cast your minds back to last year and the time just before the Christmas Festivities started and you might just remember that the Weekend Mysteron provided us with this very average and straightforward puzzle on the Saturday before Christmas. Perhaps he thought we needed extra time to fight our way round the supermarkets and wouldn’t have much time to ponder over crossword clues.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I made steady progress with this puzzle. It was only the bit of thought that I needed to get the final few answers that just about pushed the difficulty rating up to 3*.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ****
Morning All!. We had fun festive fare from Virgilius last week with Santa, his reindeer and some nativity based clues to boot.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from a very frigid Ottawa where the temperature is currently -23°C. With this being my regular turn in the blogger’s chair, the schedule has proven to be very fortuitous since – as we recently learned – Pommers is currently recuperating from a rather nasty bit of illness. I am sure he has taken heart from the outpouring of good wishes that have been directed his way. Hopefully, he will soon be well enough to flirt with those pretty Spanish nurses – when Pommette isn’t looking, of course.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Paul is my favourite Guardian setter and he’s never less than entertaining but in his Dada guise it seems at times as though he’s working in a straitjacket. I did enjoy this puzzle but I don’t really class it as a Toughie and it could have appeared on the back page.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
An enjoyable puzzle, a bit of a slow start until the long answers were in place. A 3*/3* for me. Thanks to setter.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
Firefly is not often seen in the Tuesday slot, but it didn’t take long to see why he was selected for today. A fairly predictable theme with some scrappy wordplay.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Happy New Year from South Staffordshire, and welcome to the first blog of 2013.
I went to bed fairly promptly after seeing in the New Year, knowing that I had this blog to write. As it happened, I got a remarkably early start, having been woken at 4 a.m. by flashing blue lights outside as the fire brigade and paramedics attended an incident in a nearby house. Being somewhat short of sleep may account for the fact that I found the top half of the grid held me up for a while, hence the *** marking.