Toughie No 2607 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
On the Telegraph Puzzles Site, this proXimal Toughie is today’s “Free-to-Play” puzzle Continue reading “Toughie 2607”
Category: proXimal
ProXimal is Steve Bartlett, who sets crosswords for The Independent as eXternal (which he first used in our NTSPP series), and for the Financial Times as arteXlen.
Toughie 2591
Toughie No 2591 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
A nice friendly proXimal Toughie for another snowy day in lockdown. Continue reading “Toughie 2591”
Toughie 2571
Toughie no 2571 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
An enjoyable and solver-friendly Toughie from proXimal. I did search for a pangram as the grid is one of his ‘usual’ ones where the Xs appear in the black squares but the solutions are also missing a Z so just an ‘ordinary’ crossword this time
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Toughie 2544
Toughie No 2544 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ***
Now that was a proper Toughie and no mistake! Continue reading “Toughie 2544”
Toughie 2525
Toughie No 2525 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
A gentler proXimal with some lovely clues, making for an enjoyable solve. Continue reading “Toughie 2525”
Toughie 2504
Toughie No 2504 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
A nice proper Thursday Toughie with lots to enjoy throughout Continue reading “Toughie 2504”
Toughie 2480
Toughie No 2480 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ***
It has been quite a while Continue reading “Toughie 2480”
Toughie 2460
Toughie No 2460 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
A slightly friendlier proXimal Toughie than some, presumably why we find him in the Thursday Toughie spot, which suited me because I quite often struggle with his more difficult Toughies.… Continue reading
Toughie 2437
Toughie No 2437 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment *****
Splendid! Not overly difficult, and clever clues that are clever for all the right reasons. A lot of lovely surfaces, some of which seem topical. As often happens, I appreciated the puzzle all the more when writing the blog and added an enjoyment star
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Toughie 2417
Toughie No 2417 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***/****
As often happens, I gained further appreciation of the puzzle on writing up the blog, when I could savour all the clues again. Plenty of good surfaces to like here today, such as in the excellent 18a, but also in clues like 20a, 26a and 21d – as well the nice Excalibur mislead in 22a.… Continue reading