Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Serpent can always be relied on to provide the solver with a nicely challenging crossword, Continue reading “Toughie 2726”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
The sun has got his hat on. Hip hip hip hooray
The sun has got his hat on and he’s coming out today
About time too.
As for today’s puzzle from serpent Continue reading “Toughie 2709”
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
Serpent has given us a proper Toughie to solve this grey and gloomy Wednesday morning. Continue reading “Toughie 2678”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
In terms of difficulty this is about par for a midweek Toughie. At one stage I thought we were going to get an equestrian theme but I don’t think there are enough references even for a ‘mini’ one.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
A proper Toughie as we’d expect from Serpent. Continue reading “Toughie 2623”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ****/***** – Enjoyment ***
You can usually rely on Serpent to give us both a proper Toughie and a Nina and that’s definitely the case today. Continue reading “Toughie 2587”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Serpent always gives us something extra and today he’s excelled by providing a pangram without the single most common letter in English (although its shape does make a few appearances in the grid).… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Thanks to Serpent for an enjoyable and not too tricky puzzle. When I blogged Serpent’s last Toughie the setter left a comment telling us that every answer in the grid contained the letter L to match the patterns of the black squares in the grid (which I and all those commenting had totally missed).… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***
There’s some complicated wordplay here (which I enjoyed winkling out). There are two clues (1a and 14a) where the definition can only be the whole clue but the whole clue doesn’t really match up with the answer.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
This is just the sort of puzzle I like – no gimmicks, no obscurities just clever wordplay and deceptive definitions. Thanks to Serpent for the entertainment.
Please leave a comment telling us how you fared and what you thought of it.… Continue reading