Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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This puzzle was published on 28th March 2021
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Our Sunday Setter was in a generous mood and gave us a reasonably straightforward puzzle this week. Continue reading “ST 3101”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Apologies for the lateness of the blog, but an overnight upgrade of Windows 10 nearly wrecked my laptop – I still have a lot to recover.
Another enjoyable puzzle from Donnybrook. Continue reading “Toughie 2621”
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BD Rating - Difficulty ** - Enjoyment ***
Hello, everyone. I had my second dose of Moderna earlier today, and I was happy to get the hints done before any side-effects appeared. Given that they are proof that the vaccine is doing its thing, I'm not sure if I want them or not. Anyway, we're here to talk about the crossword, so let's move on to that. The long anagrams in today's puzzle provided an early foothold from which I was able to make steady progress. I found a few of the surface readings rather odd. I'd grade it as a solid Tuesday puzzle with nothing super taxing. Continue reading "DT 29642"
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hola from the Vega Baja where I know that Spring has sprung because the swallows are back form their travels. Unfortunately the weather forecasters don’t agree and say it’s going to go cold and wet for a few days from Wednesday before normal service is resumed next week. Oh well, they aren’t always right.
Today we have a pretty normal Monday puzzle. I thought it was going to be a bit tricky when I only got six of the acrosses on first pass but then the downs came to the rescue in a big way, yielding ten out of the fourteen clues. The missing answers just filled themselves in after that leaving me wondering why I missed them the first time. Just being a bit slow I guess.
Continue reading “DT 29641”
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
This setter often has a Nina or a little grid feature of some kind. There seems to be something going on with the starts of words (rows 1,3,13,15).… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs on a chilly Good Friday morning.
The crossing pair at 10a and 1d, both of which seemed to me to be a little stretched as definitions, gave me a certain amount of trouble and were last in, taking me into *** territory, but otherwise this seemed to be a fairly typical Friday puzzle.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on 27th March 2021
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Gnomey is inundated with (fee-paying) work, so I will be sharing this slot with crypticsue for the foreseeable future in order to give him a break. Continue reading “DT 29634”
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Pinch, punch, the first of the month – and Firefly provides us with a suitably themed crossword Continue reading “Toughie 2619”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **/***
We have a pleasant pangram today – thanks to Stick Insect. It’s not really very tough and all twelve of the four-letter answers (which usually provoke accusations of peskiness) are pretty straightforward.… Continue reading