Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hi everyone. Today is a Chalicea Tuesday — yay! I found it of a normal difficulty level for the day and the setter. I’m not quite sure which way is up at the moment so I’ve left the enjoyment rating untouched, but please shout at me if you think it should be higher!
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Hello, everyone, and welcome. Our current run of excellent Tuesday puzzles continues today with another fine crossword. I can't think of much to say about it beyond labelling it solid puzzling fun. Continue reading "DT 29038"
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
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Good morning from the Bailiwick of Jersey where Saint Sharon and I are spending a few days after watching Coventry Rugby Club beat Jersey in a thrilling game played in the warm sunshine, the rain, the hail, the biting cold and a very strong wind.… Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg, where, while recovering from (man) flu yesterday, I enjoyed watching Blues vs. Ospreys in the oval ball game, only marred by transplanted members of the BBC commentary team, and Delia Smith’s Canaries securing promotion to the Premier League in the round ball game
Today, with the start of the fourth thousand of ST puzzles, I will very quietly endorse the comment CS made in her review of ST 2999 on Thursday, Dada continuing to show us some benevolence with a higher than usual number of anagrams, still with some unusual indicators, two lurkers (one reversed), and one homophone, in a symmetric 32 clues.… Continue reading
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Big Dave’s at the monthly village market and Tilsit has major broadband problems not of his own making – unless of course he was the one who set the ‘box over the road’ on fire. So the fifth cavalry has hurriedly bashed out a few hints. I’m sure people will ask for more assistance, but have a good look at the clues and you may find them more straightforward than you thought on first reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Congratulations Sparks! (see Nina). Time to open a couple of Spanish wines. It took a short while to get into this puzzle but it soon flowed smoothly.
Definitions are underlined as usual.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs where the sun is trying to break through the early morning cloud.
Today’s Giovanni took me a little longer than some of the puzzles I have blogged recently, but as always the wordplay enables the solver to get to the more obscure answers.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on 20th April 2019
BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
I quite enjoyed solving this – I wasn’t even put off the solving process by three separate emails from a certain pub landlord about three of the clues – but then as I typed the review, I did find that, on many occasions, if I wasn’t sorting out an anagram, I seemed to be inserting something into something else, and in one case, inserting something into an anagram.… Continue reading