Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
While not the hardest of puzzles, this is much better than the early Busman puzzles in the Toughie series and I enjoyed solving it. The handful of trickier answers are well clued.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
It seemed to me that there were a lot of clues today where you had to insert, add on or take off individual characters so I found it all a bit fiddly and I didn’t enjoy it that much. Am I just in a bad mood? Let me know what you think.
To reveal an answer just highlight the spaces between the brackets under the clue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Pretty standard stuff from Rufus this morning. I do have a question mark placed on 10a and 12a. Both clues seem to mean basically the same thing or am I missing something?
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the more difficult clues and provide hints for them.
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Another fine puzzle from eXternal.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from the Calder Valley! We end the Toughie week with a visit from Firefly. I found this very much a curate’s egg of a puzzle with some really nice stuff but one or two clues that caused some tooth-sucking. Whether it was because we were spoiled with Micawber and Dada’s fine puzzles over the past couple of days, but this didn’t quite hit the mark for me. The puzzle seems to have a number of famous names as answers, but I’m not sure this is a theme as such.
The other reason this puzzle was rather odd for me was that I virtually started at the bottom of the grid and worked my way up. At one point, I had the entire bottom half completed with one answer in the top half. In fact the top half took me over twice as long as the bottom half.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Last Friday’s Giovanni was, I thought, on the easy side but this week he’s given us a meatier puzzle with some cracking clues. Let us know how you found it and how you got on.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Morning All! We had a reasonable stiff test for a Saturday puzzle and a standout clue for me at 11d.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
I thought that this was a nice puzzle even though I didn’t find it very challenging. It looked as though I was on for a record time when I filled the bottom half in extremely quickly, with only 24 down needing pause for thought. I slowed down on the top half but encountered no major difficulty. There are a lot of good clues with more ‘double definitions’ than usual