Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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Until the Telegraph resumes the award of prizes for the Weekend puzzles, this post, and all other Weekend posts, will be just like the Monday to Friday posts, with hints for every clue and revealable answers.… Continue reading
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
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Until the Telegraph resumes the award of prizes for the Saturday puzzles, this post, and tomorrow’s, will be just like the Monday to Friday posts, with hints for every clue and revealable answers. BD
Good morning everyone from a self-isolating blogger in Warrington. I have been feeling a bit grotty with coughing spells since Wednesday and have lost my sense of smell and taste. I went for a swab test yesterday and am awaiting the results, but now plan to completely self-isolate, although, in truth, I have largely been doing that since day one. The only time I went out this week was to visit my district nurse and to do some shopping at Tesco. Given the behaviour of some of the people there, I’m guessing that’s where I picked it up. Continue reading “DT 29377”
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Some great quirky clueing today. Sparks often has a Nina, but I haven’t seen anything yet, perhaps someone will help me.
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Good morning from South Staffs where the sun continues to shine on our locked -down world. I wonder how many people it took to work out the latest ‘relaxation’ where you can meet family members in your garden so long as you don’t let them use the loo?… Continue reading
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We haven’t had a Toughie from Zandio since last November but I’d say he certainly hasn’t lost any of his ability to provide a proper really tough crossword in the interim.… Continue reading
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Hello everyone. Here we go again, another Thursday and we’re now in the middle of week ten of lockdown, in case you’ve all lost count – at least we’ve got a Ray T crossword to cheer us up.… Continue reading
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As I may have mentioned once or twice before I do prefer Toughies which are based on complex wordplay rather than obscure GK. Giovanni seems to delight in finding the most obscure words to populate his grids but, having said that, there were only two bits of GK (11a and 7d) in this one that I didn’t know.… Continue reading
BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
Monday had some exciting moments for us. About 8.30 am we got shaken up by a 5.8 strength earthquake that had it’s epicentre just off the coast from where we live. Since then we have had dozens of after-shocks, the biggest (5.3) being at lunch time Tuesday.… Continue reading
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Good afternoon from the very still heart of Downtown L I where great excitement has been enjoyed as a Cuckoo has been heard singing his song in the osier beds. The first in many years. Todays Toughie is not too tough although a couple of parsings held me up. Continue reading “Toughie 2442”