Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
Good afternoon from South Staffs, where a bright morning has become an overcast autumnal day.
A gentle start to the Toughie week, though I found that some of the clues took longer to explain than to solve.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ***
Thanks again to Deep Threat for swapping, allowing me to give a very wide berth to today’s Toughie. While some of the general knowledge required will be familiar to most solvers, I thought that the obscure, certainly to me, poet in 28 across was a step too far, even with reasonably easy wordplay.