Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Thanks once again to Virgilius for a superb start to Sunday – the crossword didn’t take that long to solve, so it was great to have time to enjoy the clues for a second time in order to prepare this review. Some of my favourite clues are marked in blue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This is an enjoyable puzzle from Giovanni to round off the working week. Give us your views in a comment.
If you need to see an answer just highlight the space between the curly brackets under the clue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! This was a pretty archetypal Cephas puzzle which ticked all the right boxes for me and, reading the blog on the day, for all you guys as well. Whilst not difficult it did contain some very well worked clues. Continue reading “DT 26606”
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The next Sloggers and Betters get-together will be held in Cheltenham on Saturday August 6th starting at 1.00 pm at the Midland Hotel, 247 Gloucester Road, Cheltenham, GL51 8NW. The venue is right next to Cheltenham Spa station.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from the Calder Valley. No, you haven’t slipped into a time warp and lost a day! Bufo and I have done a swap for this week and I am reviewing the Thursday Toughie. It’s nice to be able to get to grips with Shamus who is a fine setter in all his incarnations and is a really nice guy to boot (not that you should ever boot a crossword setter!).
Not as challenging as a Friday puzzle in truth, but this contained a few little nuggets that made me think. Nice to see a trademark pangrammatic puzzle as well [Oh no it isn’t – see the bottom of the post BD]. Some excellent surface readings and clever definitions that made me smile. A very pleasant solve and thanks to Shamus for today’s challenge.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
This very enjoyable puzzle was two-star difficulty for me but I guess others might struggle. Today Ray T has given us no less than three answers which contain two words – a bit of a rarity.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I’m still sulking because Micawber has absconded from his rightful place – the Wednesday slot. Instead we have a pretty gentle Toughie where most of the clues would have felt quite at home on the back page, but I did quite enjoy it.
Let us know what you thought and please take the time to click on one of the stars below to record how much you liked it.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
This is Jeremy Mutch’s 500th Telegraph Crossword.
It’s not often that a back-page setter is identified, but Jay, as we know him, is given a name check in today’s newspaper.
Pommers is busy preparing his apartment for a client who is arriving today, but will be back in the hot seat next week.
Once again Jay produces a not-too-difficult but nonetheless enjoyable puzzle.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
It’s been nearly two years since we had a Micawber puzzle on a Tuesday, so today is my lucky day! The usual excellent wordplay and witty clues more than make up for the couple of slightly dodgy homophones.
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
It didn’t take long to write in the answers for this puzzle, but some of the wordplay is a bit trickier (and I needed the help of a fellow blogger to get to the bottom of one clue) so I quite enjoyed it. It seems to have a bit of a food theme. How did you get on?
If you want to see an answer highlight the space between the brackets under the relevant clue.