Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
A typical Ray T puzzle which just crept over the border into Toughie time, I’ve added half a star to the difficulty time to allow for a couple of bits of tricky parsing, not to mention the fact that I did have to do a bit of dictionary synonym checking while producing the blog. … Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja where it’s a bit chilly but bright and sunny but with rain forecast for the weekend. I’m a bit twitchy about rain at the moment so I hope it’s not of biblical proportions!
I don’t know who today’s setter is apart from I’d venture it isn’t proXimal. It certainly didn’t frighten the horses and I was going to go for just * difficulty after I got seven acrosses and then fourteen downs on first pass. However a couple of the rest held out a bit so ** it is for me. There are five reasonably lengthy anagrams to give a lot of checkers so I don’t expect many of you will have had much trouble. Continue reading “DT 29261”
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This puzzle was published on 5th January 2020
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! Quite a tricky one I thought and I threw 6d in without a clue as to the parsing. Continue reading “ST 3037”