Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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Today is your last chance to enter our May Prize puzzle!
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! It is nice to be making one of my occasional ventures into Blogland and even more so when the puzzle you get to blog is so stunningly breath-taking.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
It’s Friday so it’s Giovanni with a pleasant and not too taxing puzzle. There did seem to be a lot of insertions needed in the wordplay. Let us know how you got on.
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
A fairly typical offering from the Saturday Mysteron, well I thought so anyway.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Bufo is away today. This morning I took our German guests on a tour around the Morgan factory, which lasted longer than I expected.
We used to complain when MynoT was working his way through the alphabet, but at least that added some interest to his puzzles. [Thanks to Crypticsue for pointing out that all of the answers contained an R … zzzzzzz.]
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Morning All! – This was an excellent puzzle in my opinion –there were a few clue that I really had to think hard about to solve and even harder to unravel the wordplay.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa where — following a heatwave of mid-summer proportions — we have reverted to more seasonable (or even below seasonable) temperatures. The premature taste of July makes the current conditions all the more unpleasant. There is certainly nothing unpleasant about today’s puzzle from RayT — it was a joy to solve and a delight to review. On my first pass through, I was able to establish a network of solutions spanning the grid. Then my pace slowed markedly as the remaining clues demanded more thinking. However, by systematically building upon the initial structure, I was able to gradually fill in the blanks. I thought that the puzzle edged into three star territory for difficulty, but I suspect there will be a number of readers who feel it stayed in the two star range.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment *****
We have another super puzzle from Micawber – a pleasure to solve and blog. Do let us know how you got on and what you thought of it.
Continue reading “Toughie 979”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This was quite enjoyably easy. So I’d give it a 2-1.5* for difficulty and 3* for enjoyment. Thanks to Jay.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
A tougher-than-usual Tuesday Toughie, but one that I enjoyed.