Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
It’s been a long time since I blogged a Ray T or Beam puzzle (in the old days I used to blog a Ray T puzzle every other Tuesday when he alternated with Shamus) and it’s a pleasure to meet him again in his Beam guise.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
The sun is already shining here in Barrel just before 7.00am. I feel beer may be involved later.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***
A typical Giovanni Toughie – Continue reading “Toughie 2630”
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
The big news here this week has been the opening of the trans-Tasman travel bubble. This means that people can once again travel in either direction between Australia and New Zealand without any requirement for 2 weeks quarantine.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on 11th April 2021
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. I now have the pleasure of writing the review for a puzzle of the Sunday Telegraph. While going through 12a, I really started looking back to the good old days of my childhood of 1967 when I got double promotion to a higher class for the second time. The new books had already been bought when, one day, within the first week of the commencement of our class, I was taken from my class on the ground floor to a room on the first floor where Mrs. Wainwright, our School Principal, began to put me to various types of tests and from there, after some time, I was taken to Class II on the first floor itself. A new list of books to be purchased was handed over to me. But I did not discard my previous English book. It had the rhyme, “Jack Sprat could eat no fat. His wife could eat no lean …” with a big cartoon showing a lean Jack Sprat pushing a cart in which his fatty wife with chubby cheeks, occupying almost the entire space, sat facing him. At home, I used to open that book quite often to have a glimpse of those ‘strange’ chubby cheeks. Continue reading “ST 3103”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
The late posting was due to a problem at the hosting site which caused an outage.
A typical Tuesday Toughie from Chalicea. Continue reading “Toughie 2629”
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to another Tuesday. While I found this puzzle fairly straightforward for a Tuesday, it raised several smiles that easily earned it a 3* enjoyment rating. Continue reading "DT 29654"
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Hola from the Vega Baja where our lockdown continues. It’s not too bad really as bars are open until 1800 and shops can open up to 2000 so it doesn’t really affect pommette and I as we rarely go out in the evening. I’m more for a good lunch followed by a siesta and then a veg-out in front of the telly. The main problem for us is that the borders of Communitat Valenciana remain closed so we haven’t been able to visit our apartment since last October as it’s in the neighbouring community of Murcia. Still, the measures have had some good effect and Valenciana has the lowest infection rate in Spain, some say the lowest rate in Europe.
Not much to say about the puzzle that I haven’t before. It’s another example of what has become our normal Monday fare. However, there’s a couple of clues with slightly complicated wordplay and more than the average number of clues involving anagrams. I thought it more enjoyable than usual so it’ll be interesting to see if any of you agree.
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