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Sunday Toughie 103 (Hints)

Sunday Toughie No 103

by Robyn

 

Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee

 

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Robyn with an enjoyable Grammar and Geography lesson today. We have that horse garment again! but also a nice theme for which you may need a gazetteer or Google Maps

14a and 14d clues today and I have hinted half

A laptop that is stuck in an update loop and a broken mouse have put me behind today so I am dashing a bit to get this blog out    A dab of glue and a slap on the battery and it’s sorted!

Here we go…

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Sunday Toughie 102 (Hints)

Sunday Toughie No 102


by proXimal

 

Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee

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Thanks to proXimal for a pleasant Toughie today, probably at the easier end of his spectrum but I am maybe just relieved it wasn’t as tough as his Christmas EV
Plenty of homophones and anagrams of various degrees of partiality and A Spoonerism that shouldn’t frighten the livestock either equine or avian

Here we go, Folks…

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Sunday Toughie 101 (Hints)

Sunday Toughie No 101

by Zandio

Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee

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I hope this isn’t as hard as Zandio’s Friday backpager but I didn’t have time on Friday, this is definitely a toughie with some tricky parsings that needed a lot of thinking about. I went to sleep on a couple and hopefully, they resolved themselves in my dreams. We have Lego™ and lurkers both forwards and backwards and what appears to be a reverse homophone and a reverse anagram, if you have any queries just ask and I will try to help with the hints that hit the cutting room floor.

We  have 14a and 14d clues today and I will hint half 

I was refreshed by a high phenol Speyside Benromach and a morsel (massive slab) of Cheese with my Christmas Cake so my dreams were intense
Here we go…

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Sunday Toughie 100 (Hints)

Sunday Toughie No 100

by Robyn

 

Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee

 

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I was hoping for something a little more Christmassy or celebratory for Sunday Toughie 100 but we have a fairly standard Sunday Toughie from Robyn today, anagrams and lurkers are unhinted but some obscurities may need an extra nudge, just ask and I will help

I will decorate the blog with our Christmas Plates starting with 1976 up there, Don’t tell Mama Bee about the dust, I am not fluffing around with the feather duster whilst they are up there Pretend it is just the snow falling on the Blog and move on

We have 14a and 14d clues and I will hint half

Here we go…

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Sunday Toughie 99 (Hints)

Sunday Toughie No 99

by Zandio

Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee

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Zandio returns from his brief hiatus with a fine Sunday Toughie. a good mix of anagrams, reverse anagrams, lurkers and &lits and I have hinted at half of  an even 14a and 14d clues

I still haven’t heard who or what we are getting in Sunday Toughie 100 on Christmas Eve, I have used up two of my Christmassy songs today I will have to find some more for then, in the meantime here is one of my favourite dogs from the interwebs on a steady winter walk near Lochnagar

Here we go…

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