Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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Greetings from the tropical land of Warrington.
Here we go with another Saturday morning challenge, and this is quite a challenge. This certainly took a little longer than usual and requires a little more knowledge than many of the recent puzzles. Continue reading “DT 29437 (Hints)”
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment *****
The long answers and anagrams gave a nice way into this puzzle, which is full of Sparks’s usual wit and clever devices.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs on a bright sunny morning with the promise of some high temperature to come.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on 1st August 2020
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Cephas gave us a nice middling-difficulty Saturday puzzle Continue reading “DT 29431”
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment **/***
Kcit in very ‘kind to solvers’ mode this week – considerably more time was spent checking the dictionary for synonyms and counting the number of times insertions and ‘doing something with a letter’ appeared in the clues than actually solving the crossword in the first place
Please leave a comment telling us what you thought.… Continue reading
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BD Rating — Difficulty *** — Enjoyment ****
Hello everyone on this Ray T Thursday. I thought it was about average in terms of difficulty – not too tricky which is just as well as my brain is feeling a bit woolly this morning – it doesn’t work very well when it’s too hot!… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ****
Micawber on a Wednesday – wow, it’s just like old times.… Continue reading
BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
Slightly bigger birds for our wildlife report this week. A very sleek egret patiently waiting by a stream that runs through the wetland at the edge of the estuary. … Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on 26th July 2020
BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
A trickier Dada this week but with the usual insertions, anagrams and insertions of anagrams, all wrapped in some nice surface readings for clues that are easy to explain in a review
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Good Morning from Downtown L I where I am clearing out and selling off fourteen years of stuff.… Continue reading