Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Ha! By pure chance I just came across a week-old email from the Telegraph with a £50 amazon voucher for winning the Sunday Prize crossword – it was in my spam folder!… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning everyone from a warm and sunny Shropshire.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment **
This puzzle was published on 25th July 2015
An ‘entry level’ puzzle that pleased many on the day.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
This was an enjoyable puzzle with some nice clues but it was not particularly tough.… Continue reading
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BD Rating — Difficulty **** — Enjoyment ****
Good morning all. This isn’t a Ray T crossword but it’s certainly the week for difficult ones.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty */**– Enjoyment ****
The usual Sunday service – hard to pick just one favourite so I’ll say that, amongst several others I could mention, I thought 10a, 26a were brilliant.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Thanks to Messinae for a very pleasant puzzle with some good surface readings and several d’oh moments.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa (Greetings, Greetings, Greetings to you all).
As it is quite a long time since we last used a Maori greeting here, we thought we would re-use this formal greeting that is often used as the opening line of an oration given on a marae.
We don’t need to play the game of “guess the setter” on a Wednesday. We know it is going to be Jay and we know it is going to be fun. Today we had to work quite a lot harder than usual too.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *
Giovanni offers us a Pangram today, though the combination of unusual words and ultra-loose definitions made it hard for me to enjoy this puzzle as much as I did last Friday’s.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
I’ve got a pretty good idea as to the identity of today’s compiler (though I’m not going to spell it out in case I’m wrong).… Continue reading