Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where, while Spring may have sprung, the grass has not yet riz, because most of it is still under up to 30 cms of hard-packed snow, but we do have birdies mostly the hardy small ones, sparrows, chickadees, and nuthatches, who stay with us all year unlike the wimpy large ones which have to migrate to warmer climes for Winter.… Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where, while it may be the last full day of Winter today, Old Man Winter does not seem willing to allow the change of season to take place. … Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where, while it was snowing at 2:00am this morning, we endured the biannual nonsense of changing our clocks and other timing devices by one hour, ‘springing forward’ in this case. … Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where, as elsewhere, meteorologists would have us believe that Spring started on Wednesday. Personally, I go along with the idea that (true, astronomical) Spring begins on the day of the Vernal Equinox, in two weeks and one day time, when it is more likely that Winter will be over.… Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where we have been back in the deep freeze for most of the week but the forecast is suggesting a few days of minus single digit highs which of course means that it will be warm enough (a relative term) for some more snow.… Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where our Winter Festival – le Festival du Voyageur – started on Friday with appropriate temperatures to ensure that the ice and snow sculptures will not ‘disappear’ during the course of the festival and our river skating and skiing trail has been in operation for several weeks (sorry Falcon).… Continue reading
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A very good Wednesday morning from Winnipeg – I am ‘filling in’ today while the 2 Kiwis are enjoying the second week of their summer holiday.
So, following Jay’s announcement last Wednesday saying that he is scaling back on his setting activities, and on re-reading last week’s DT article about Robyn joining the back-page team, while the implication was that he (Robyn) set last Wednesday’s puzzle, there was no indication that he will be the regular Wednesday setter. … Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where we have continued to enjoy above seasonal normal temperatures with very little new precipitation.
For me, and I stress for me, Dada still quite friendly but with a soupçon of quirkiness today and, perhaps, an uncharacteristic error, with six anagrams (no partials), two lurkers (one reversed), and three homophones, all in an asymmetric 28 clues; with 14 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid you should be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues.… Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where, six years ago to the very day, and 314 Sunday blogs ago, I started my Sunday blogging ‘career’ and I have never looked back.
Assisted by a Speyside Glenlivet – none of that Western Isles ‘Jeyes fluid’ for me!… Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where, with the end of January in sight, the un-seasonally warm two or three weeks we have enjoyed has already come to an end and we are back in the deep freeze with a high temperature (using the term loosely) of minus 23 degrees yesterday with a similar forecast for today.… Continue reading