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 ***
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
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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
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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”
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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”
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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