Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
I didn’t spot the mini-theme in today’s puzzle until after I’d finished. Solving 13a and 21a will point you in the right direction. Theme related clues are highlighted in green.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I’m pretty sure that this is a Shamus puzzle – it is a pangram which is becoming a trademark of his. It also has a mini-theme, with no less than four male names clued as representatives of European countries. However, I’m willing to bet that the clue attracting most criticism will be 23a, which is the name of a cricketer who was very famous in his day – but his day was a long time ago! Let us have a comment (on 23a or anything else).
To reveal an answer drag your cursor through the space between the brackets under the relevant clue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Standard Monday morning stuff from the maestro, and I expect no major problems amongst the massed ranks of solvers out there. Please feel free to leave a comment.
If you do need to reveal the answer, just highlight the space found between the curly brackets on the left of the page.
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Peter Harvey, known on Fifteensquared as Kathryn’s Dad, has arranged a lunchtime get-together for solvers, setters and bloggers in Derby on Saturday 29th January. Over 40 people have already replied, so it should be an unmissable event.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
This puzzle was sent to a number of us just before Christmas as a thank you from Prolixic for our help with his puzzle setting. It was on the difficult side and, indeed, I seem to remember taking a couple of days off and on to solve it and needing checking letters/Chambers to finish it off. A very enjoyable puzzle – Thank you Prolixic.
Continue reading “NTSPP – 049 (Review)”
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Welcome to the forty ninth in our series of weekly puzzles.
This special puzzle features names that will be familiar to followers of the blog.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
Howdoo all!
After two days of being pummelled by Osmosis and Notabilis, we are hit today with the third part of a triple whammy, Elgar, who is full of deviousness as usual. After completing it, I feel like I have been in the ring with David Haye!
I found that this took me a while longer than usual, partly due to the toughness of the clues, but also due to the large number of “double unches” (two unchecked squares together) which didn’t assist with the answers I had trouble with.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ***
It’s been an interesting process reviewing this crossword some 5 days after solving it – not least because Mr CS had recycled the paper! A bit of a rummage through a heap of papers led me to rediscover that this didn’t take me long to solve; what took the time was working out the wordplay – what Prolixic referred to as a ‘thinking’ crossword – hence the 2.5* for difficulty. Thanks to Virgilius – I did enjoy both the solving and the revisiting for the review writing.