Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
There is rather a lot of topping and tailing of words. To solve messy clues like many of these you need to find the definition, guess the answer and then try and analyse the wordplay.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from California Cross in South Devon, where the rain is persisting down from a uniformly leaden sky.
It may just be the holiday feeling, but I found this more difficult than recent Tuesday offerings, hence the *** rating, though when I’d finished I couldn’t really see where the difficulty had been. 22a was the last one in.