Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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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 *****
Another amazing puzzle from Elgar. I managed to spot the theme quickly in 8a/11a and that helped enormously with the rest of the solve.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs on a Friday 13th which started dark and damp, but is now brighter and blustery.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on 7th December 2019
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! Pretty standard fair for a Saturday with some nice surface readings and some good cryptic definitions.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***/****
I struggled with this somewhat but I think that was more down to me than to the puzzle. Still it was enjoyable though I really had to think hard to unravel some of the wordplay. Continue reading “Toughie 2349”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hola from the Vega Baja. Well, things have moved on a bit here. We now have new doors on the bedrooms and bathroom and a fully functional kitchen. The master bedroom is finished so all I have to do now is redecorate the rest of the house. Deep joy!
Anyway, on to the crossword which I’m pretty sure is a proXimal production as it’s a pangram bar an X. I found it at the easier end of his range and I got 10 of the acrosses on first pass. A couple held me up a bit (25a for example) so we slipped into ** time. I’ll be interested to see what you all thought of it.
Continue reading “DT 29232”
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This puzzle was published on 1st December 2019
BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Morning All! A failry quick solve today but the review found some nice constructions that I missed when I threw the words in from checing letters and obvious definitions. Personally I think that I would have added an extra enjoyment star if the Defs had been a bit more oblique.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ***
There’s nothing too demanding here with the main hold-ups being down to a few bits of GK (in 1a and 5d in my case).… Continue reading
BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
It has been quite a week here in New Zealand. The weather pattern that we mentioned in last week’s blog caused significant infrastructure damage in the South Island with many slips and areas of flooding.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
BD has something nice to attend today and his stand-in blogger has a family emergency, so I’m the stand in’s stand in again.… Continue reading