Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
Hints and tips for completing Daily Telegraph Cryptic crosswords
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
This is a typically quirky puzzle from Excalibur. We have lots of very short anagrams including several with only three letters and one (and I don’t remember ever having seen this before) with only two letters.
Continue reading “Toughie 1190”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs on a damp, rainy morning – something of a contrast to the weather of the last week.
I found this puzzle from the Tuesday Mysteron to be pretty tricky in places, a definite *** difficulty for me.
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from the Roseland Peninsula where the Sun is trying to break through the haze. Once again Rufus shows that his gentle side comes with a sinister edge. Happy holidays to Saint Sharon and I. The new parents and number one grandchild join us tomorrow.
Reviewed by Prolixic
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Congratulations to Pegasus who is the winner of the May Monthly Prize Puzzle. Solvers had to identify the actor who was stepping down – a reference to the fact that his name appears in one of the left to right downwards diagonals of the crossword – see the solution below if you could not find the answer.
This was one of Gazza’s tougher crosswords as befits the Monthly Prize Puzzle but still full of fun and inuendo. I hope that I have done justice to the wordplay in the solutions that follow.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a number of the more difficult clues and provide hints for them.
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There’s still time to enter our Monthly Prize Puzzle.
BD is going to the knees-up at Derby today so I’ve been called off the bench as a substitute. As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.
Continue reading “DT 27492 (Hints)”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
One of Notabilis’s easier puzzles, but still very enjoyable.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
Hola from the Vega Baja. I’m doing the blog today because archy has gone into a bit of a sulk. The alley cat has forsaken him and went solo yesterday so he’s refusing to jump on the keyboard. Other news is that it was the warmest April in Alicante since 1878. I don’t suppose that these events are in any way connected but . . . ?
On to the puzzle. I’ve not blogged many Fridays (only one I think) but it seemed pretty standard fare from the Don. A bit tricky in places but nothing to really frighten the horses. Some of the clues are much more difficult to hint than they were to solve but I’ll be interested to see what you make of them.