Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Tilsit had forgotten that an ambulance was arriving this morning, so I have put this review together at short notice.
Another excellent puzzle from Notabilis. I thought afterwards that maybe I should have solved it more quickly than I did. The puzzle is littered with the usual superb clues, with a number of “Doh!” moments.
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ****
From this coming Sunday, April 29th, the closing date for the Sunday puzzles is being extended by six days. The Telegraph Puzzles editor has taken this decision, because of the huge increase in postal rates due to come in on the following day, in order to allow solvers to use second class post. As a result the reviews of the Sunday puzzles will now be published six days later than at present. The next review will be on Thursday 10th May, and there will be no review next week. BD
Many thanks to Virgilius once again for brightening up Sunday morning with a slightly more straightforward than usual crossword, but with the same high enjoyment factor as ever. My favourites are highlighted in blue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
First of all I would like to thank everybody for their birthday wishes last Saturday as I hit my 50th. Then secondly I would like to thank Gazza for stepping into the Monday spot at short notice (I had a sick cat to pick up from the vets). That left me with the opportunity of blogging a Friday Giovanni. I don’t know about the rest of you but this seemed to be a tough one and took longer than normal. Just in case you missed it, it is also a pangram.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! This week’s Prize Puzzle looks like a Cephas production containing, as it does, a number of charades and some very appropriate anagram indicators. I enjoyed it a great deal.