Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment *****
I think this is the first time I’ve had to blog one of Micawber’s annual reviews of the year and what a pleasure it is.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hola from the Vega Baja from where I have the honour of blogging the last back pager of the year. As you might expect there are a few clues relevant to the occasion but for me they rather spoiled things as their answers were so obvious. The rest of the puzzle is pretty good though.
Before going on to the hints may I wish a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all setters, bloggers, commenters and lurkers. Feliz Año as they say around here.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
As is traditional, Gazza kindly offered me the chance to do an on the day Toughie review while I am on my Christmas/New Year break from work. This time the email inviting me to do so came with the ‘rule’ that I had to decide before the setter’s name went up on the website. After checking the list to see who might be due to make an appearance in the middle of the paper, I said ‘yes please’ and so here I am with my thoughts on this Kcit Toughie.
The crossword didn’t take long to solve and my only hold up was deciding whether my explanation of 1d was what our setter intended. All my test solving of cryptic crosswords has definitely made me more conscious of the spread of clue types in each crossword I solve – did anyone else notice that there are ten clues requiring you to remove a letter (in most cases, an initial letter) in order to obtain their solutions??
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Our thoughts go out to all of you who are affected by the weather conditions that are making the news here. Meanwhile, since before Christmas, we have been having gloriously fine summer weather. Temperatures in the mid twenties and clear blue skies just at the time when the whole country is on holiday.
Jay has increased the difficulty a little from last week we thought, and is as enjoyable as ever.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This was a quite a gentle and certainly an enjoyable start to the short post-Xmas week. Excuse the belated review.
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Wonders will never cease – the sun’s shining and there’s no rain this morning here in North Devon.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning one and all. My heartfelt good wishes to you all especially if you are affected by floodwaters.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Season’s Greetings from a wet Warrington!… Continue reading
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, a number of the more difficult clues have been selected and hints provided for them.… Continue reading