Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
During the last week we have lit our fire three times in the evening. This morning the river in front of our home was covered in a thick mist that rapidly burnt off with the rising sun to give us a glorious fine autumn day as we write this.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hi all. Another very pleasant puzzle from Silvanus to get the four-day week of Toughies underway. And a four-day weekend to look forward to as well! I’m not quite sure how to rate the difficulty because most of it yielded easily, but there were a couple of stragglers and one (17d) which stubbornly refused to budge: I stared at for a few minutes at the end, teased by the helpful-looking checking letters, before giving in to temptation and using the Chambers app.
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BD Rating - Difficulty ** - Enjoyment ***
Hello everyone. I found today's puzzle entertaining and engaging. It had a few clues where parsing required some thinking and a careful reading of the clue. Australia features in a few clues and answers. I wonder what that's about? Perhaps our setter will comment below to tell us (which would also allow us to thank him or her in person).
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I thoroughly enjoyed this challenge. What a difference a week makes.… Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg, where on Friday we had more white stuff from a ‘side swipe’ of a ‘bomb cyclone’ (the rapid deepening of an extratropical cyclonic low pressure area – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesis… 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 *****
A very pleasant and precise puzzle today. We have learnt that we can expect a pangram from Osmosis, but today he sets the bar higher: using fairly normal grid entries, we have a double pangram!… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs on a sunny but chilly morning.… Continue reading