Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Greetings from one end of the Calder Valley, shortly to be hurtling up the other end of the valley to my second home. A splendid puzzle to start the weekend from Elgar with some lovely clues and laugh-out loud moments. Thanks to our setter for a really enjoyable solve.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This report will appear a couple of days before I meet Brian Greer for the first time since my first win in the Times Crossword Championship in 2000, which marked the end of his reign as crossword editor and the beginning of Mike Laws’s short spell in the job. So I’m pretty well guaranteed to be nice about this one.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
I was somewhat perturbed this morning to find that CluedUp thinks that today’s puzzle is number 26, until I had confirmation that it is the same one that appears in the paper with the correct number. It’s trickier than Giovanni’s puzzle last week and I found it quite entertaining (especially since the rival attraction of watching the Ryder Cup has been temporarily suspended by the Welsh rain). Let us know your thoughts in a comment.
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