Toughie No 2468 by Firefly
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Firefly in friendly mode this time Continue reading “Toughie 2468”
Category: Firefly
Firefly is Geoff Oxley. He is also known as Glow-worm
Toughie 2448
Toughie No 2448 by Firefly
Hints and tips by Crypticsue
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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
Toughie 2428
Toughie No 2428 by Firefly
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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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”
Toughie 2048
Toughie No 2408 by Firefly
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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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
Toughie 2388
Toughie No 2388 by Firefly
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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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
Toughie 2372
Toughie No 2372 by Firefly
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Solved in a time which placed this puzzle on the cusp between a hard back-pager and an easy middle-of-the-paper crossword. We are a Q and an X short of a pangram.… Continue reading
Toughie 2353
Toughie No 2353 by Firefly
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I was quite happy to have a none-too-difficult puzzle today. There were no major hold-ups and very little head-scratching. Continue reading “Toughie 2353”
Toughie 2337
Toughie No 2337 by Firefly
Hints and tips by Bufo
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **/***
I had no problems in solving this (a few old chestnuts helped) but I did find it somewhat lacking in sparkle. Continue reading “Toughie 2337”
Toughie 2320
Toughie No 2320 by Firefly
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Those who accessed the puzzle online early today (as I did) may be surprised to find that five of the clues have been changed (I don’t know why – the original ones seemed just as good).… Continue reading
Toughie 2306
Toughie No 2306 by Firefly
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
A pleasant and entertaining puzzle from Firefly with some great definitions. A couple of new words were clued fairly and easily. I was lucky to get the long clues straight away, speeding up my solve
Definitions are underlined as always.… Continue reading