Toughie No 100012 by Firefly
Hints and tips by Big Dave
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Dutch seems to have gone awol today, so this was put together quickly. Continue reading “Toughie 100012”
Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
Firefly is Geoff Oxley. He is also known as Glow-worm
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Dutch seems to have gone awol today, so this was put together quickly. Continue reading “Toughie 100012”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ****/***** – Enjoyment ***
A proper Toughie from Firefly Continue reading “Toughie 2556”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
A most enjoyable themed crossword that could really only appear today. Continue reading “Toughie 2536”
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Thursday brings us Firefly with a crossword on the Toughie spectrum Continue reading “Toughie 2508”
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Firefly reverting to ‘less difficult’ mode today with quite a bit of ‘doing something with letters’ Continue reading “Toughie 2492”
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Firefly in friendly mode this time Continue reading “Toughie 2468”
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Firefly has set us a proper (themed) Thursday Toughie which I really enjoyed solving and blogging as there are some lovely clues here, hence the award of a fairly rare 4* for enjoyment.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***
Firefly has set us what I found to be a proper Toughie crossword, with a double-unched grid and the need to solve 4d before you could get going on solving the Across clues. Continue reading “Toughie 2428”
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
This Firefly crossword was well and truly on my Toughie ‘spectrum’ – parts of the LH side were particularly tricky to solve and working out/and writing the hints for some of the clues took a while too.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment **
One of those crosswords where it helps if you know ‘stuff’ and fortunately for me, I did. Solved in a time on the cusp of a backpager and a Toughie, so slightly trickier than I’d expected from Firefly.… Continue reading