Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Today StephenL has put his head above the parapet and tried his hand at reviewing. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did
Greetings from South Devon Continue reading “DT 29758”
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment **
A typical Logman Toughie Continue reading “Toughie 2698”
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
After many months of our country being virtually Covid free the inevitable has now happened and a handful of community cases have been detected in Auckland.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on 8th August 2021
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
A Sunday Prize Puzzle from Dada that I found a bit trickier than ‘usual’, possibly because the grid is one of those where you solve one corner at a time.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
G,Danga. Today’s Toughie falls into proper Toughie territory by dint of several nefarious clues that needed a bit of squeezing to wring out a suitable answer. Continue reading “Toughie 2697”
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BD Rating - Difficulty ** - Enjoyment *****
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Tuesday. It is a long time since I had this much fun solving a Tuesday puzzle. The setter had me hooked with the definition in 1a, and it just got better from there. A few of the clues were so good that I had to wonder if anything similar had appeared before. So I consulted my database of over half a million cryptic clues and, while the answers have of course been seen previously, the wordplay for those clues is both original and much better than anything that I could find. If I wore a hat, it would be off to our compiler. Brilliant work! I hope we see more like this in the Tuesday slot. Continue reading "DT 29756"
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where we have enjoyed a couple of clear sunny days in the mid-20s C following a sweltering spell of days with temperatures in the very high 20s.… Continue reading
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Solvers have already met proXimal, the EV editor, a couple of times in these hints, and he sets some of the Toughies.… Continue reading