Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Quote from the blog:
“If you stick with this excellent site (and keep commenting, by the way, so we can offer encouragement) and pay attention to the mega crossword brains who write the reviews (and Miffypops) you’ll find that your solving ability will increase far more rapidly than you can possibly imagine”.… 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
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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 *****
Today your mission is 16a (and there are more than first meets the eye).… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs. The gremlins seem to have got into Telegraph Towers this morning: There’s a misprint in 26d in the paper (it’s now been corrected on the website), and on the website (but not in the paper) we seemeed to have jumped forward in time to the autumn of 2019, since the puzzle was shown this morning as DT 29290 (now corrected).… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment **
Morning All! – This one went in so quickly that I blinked and missed it. There was not too much to entertain apart from some nice anagram indicators. Personally I prefer a stiffer challenge.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I was surprised when I’d finished to see how little time it had taken me.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja to where I returned yesterday from a very wet and windy Cornwall to find a sunny 18C at 1500CET, but this morning it’s raining! My mother is now a nonagenarian, I hadn’t realized before but she must have been about 65 when she had me!
I’m pretty sure this is a RayT puzzle and I’m also pretty sure we’ll get the usual complaints of synonyms which push the envelope a bit and definitions which are a bit on the limit but I really enjoyed it. It may be a tad tricky in places, apologies if the pennies dropping woke you up, but there are enough gimmes to get you in and with a bit of lateral thinking you’ll get there. I’ll be interested to see what the usual suspects have to say about it.