Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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Sparks as usual gives us intricate wordplay and cleverly disguised definitions that make for some great “aha” moments. No obscurities, though there were some word uses I didn’t know.… Continue reading
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Good morning from Camping La Garangeoire, in the Vendée region of France. After three weeks of sunshine, the weather has broken for us, and rain is persisting down from a slate-grey sky.… Continue reading
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As a fellow blogger, it is always interesting to look at Falcon’s National Post Cryptic Forum [use the Links tab above to take you to http://natpostcryptic.blogspot.co.uk/] and see whether our views on particular crosswords coincide. The National Post is currently using DT puzzles from December 2014 so I’ll have to wait about six months to see whether he agrees with me that, once you get going, this crossword doesn’t take long to solve, or whether he found that 15a and 5d were ‘Britishisms’ too far.