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 *+*/2 – Enjoyment ***
This was marginally more difficult than last week’s, but I’d still give it a 1.5*/3* for difficulty/enjoyment. Thanks to Jay.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Warbler gives us an easy but, as ever, enjoyable start to the Toughie week.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from Bellingham in Northumberland, where we’re sending a few days in the caravan, enjoying the sunshine between the torrential downpours. The broadband connection here is glacially slow, so no pictures or videos this week.
This puzzle took me a little longer than I expected, with 12a being last in. But once I’d finished I wondered why it had taken so long…
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
Another entertaining (if not overly difficult) romp today.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the more difficult clues and provide hints for them.
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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.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ****/***** – Enjoyment *****
Nice to have a proper Toughie to get the cryptic grey matter working hard – some fluffy ‘ease you in clues’ and some more hob-nailed examples of the art of clue-writing, including possibly the most unhelpful placement of a double unch in the history of the cryptic crossword! Definitely a ‘game of two halves’ as the right hand side was completed first and then the left slowly but surely sorted itself out.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
We’ve had some good back-page puzzles this week and today we have another enjoyable offering. Do leave a comment telling us how you fared.
Continue reading “DT 27240”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All!. I thought that this was a Cephas production upon review but may be wrong. Thanks to CS for sending me the solution and template whilst I was away working on the South Coast. I quite enjoyed this one!.