Toughie No 1521 by Giovanni
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
A rock solid puzzle with a fair bit of sparkle. I found it a pleasure to solve.
Author: Toro
Toughie 1517
Toughie No 1517 by Excalibur
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment **/***
Welcome to the Toughie week. Excalibur’s latest puzzle felt tough for a Tuesday, and while it certainly wasn’t dull, I did think one or two of the clues were the wrong sort of difficult. Still, I look forward to her next one.
Toughie 1513
Toughie No 1513 by Warbler
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
Four mini-puzzles from Warbler today which I worked round clockwise, finding the first (NW) a write-in and the second (NE) decidedly the hardest.
Toughie 1505
Toughie No 1505 by Samuel
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **/***
A decent first Toughie of the week from Samuel, if perhaps not his most entertaining.
Toughie 1497
Toughie No 1497 by Excalibur
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment *****
Excalibur at her shimmering best today! I solved the four interlocking clues in the middle then did the four resulting mini-puzzles in order, anticlockwise from the SE, enjoying it all the way.
Toughie 1493
Toughie No 1493 by Warbler
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Those pesky warblers! After blogging from east Norfolk last Tuesday I tried and failed to catch up with a Pallas’s Warbler that had been spotted in coastal woodland. Today it was 8d that eluded me. I thought I was going to tear through this puzzle but slowed down a lot in the lower half. All very enjoyable though.
Toughie 1489
Toughie No 1489 by MynoT
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
MynoT makes a rare but most welcome Tuesday appearance with a satisfying puzzle that tested and expanded my vocabulary.
Toughie 1485
Toughie No 1485 by Samuel
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings all from sunny Rutland. I struggled with this puzzle without really knowing why.
Toughie 1481
Toughie No 1481 by Dada
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BD Rating - Difficulty **/*** - Enjoyment ***
A fairly middle-of-the-road sort of Tuesday puzzle with one or two lighthearted touches.
Toughie 1477
Toughie No 1477 by Giovanni
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BD Rating - Difficulty **** - Enjoyment ****
How on earth I failed to guess this was a Giovanni I do not know! Perhaps I was too busy enjoying some very deft cluemanship to notice the Judaeo-Christian references piling up. Quite challenging for a Tuesday puzzle too, I thought, or was it just that failing to spot that there was an anagram in one corner held me up. Let's hear what you think.