Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
It could be that I’m just feeling out of sorts this morning but I didn’t enjoy this puzzle very much. There are lots of anagrams and also many clues where you have to cut out individual letters as part of the wordplay. Let us know your opinion.
If you want to see an answer just highlight the spaces between the brackets under the clue.
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Once again we have the delicious prospect of another BBC CiNA (Children in Need Appeal) 3D Calendar Puzzle. Each day has a clue. Each month has a 3D grid to complete. Some of the best setters in the UK have given of their genius freely to provide us with enough clues to solve to keep us out of trouble for most of the year.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Pretty straight forward stuff today from Rufus, but still as entertaining as ever.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the more difficult clues and provide hints for them.
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Welcome back to Hieroglyph with an excellent crossword. All the across clues have a theatrical theme in the wordplay (if not in all of the answers). Knowing the theme is not essential to solving the clues themselves.
My favourites are highlighted in blue below.
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a puzzle from Hieroglyph. There is a theme running through the across clues, but the clues are all independently solvable.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Greetings from the Calder Valley and not from the NHS controlled part of it! I came home yesterday and although I feel a bit drained, things are on the way to sorting themselves out although I will have to go through things a few more times before I’m clear.
It’s been a bit of a rum week in The Toughie World (I still struggle to get into the Telegraph site) and the hospital newspaper seller only carried a couple ‘as there was no demand’, so luckily some chums sent me copies. Disliked Tuesday’s intensely, Wednesdays and Thursday’s were fine and today we have Elgar who is back to being King of the Tough Toughies with this ferocious beast.
There’s a theme to the puzzle which will become obvious as the blog unfolds. We have the usual mix of difficult definitions and great surface readings and laugh-out loud moments. Days like this are a joy and the sense of achievement when you finish is amazing. Do try and persevere. Thanks to Elgar for a cracking challenge and one that will live in the memory.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Afternoon All! This week’s Sunday puzzle was in my opinion very straightforward – I can’t remember a faster solving time for a Virgilius puzzle. It still had all the fun in solving that we have come to expect though!.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Thanks to Giovanni for an entertaining puzzle today (which I must say I enjoyed a lot more than his Toughie yesterday). Let us know what you thought.
If you want to see an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the clue.