Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa.
We were away in Whanganui at the weekend at a book launch. On Sunday evening, when we were home again, Carol developed a few snuffles and then on Monday morning tested positive for Covid.… Continue reading
Sunday Toughie No 42 by proXimal
Review by Sloop John Bee
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This puzzle was published on the 13th November 2022
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
A typical Dada Sunday Prize puzzle Continue reading “ST 3186 (full review)”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hello everyone from a wet and windy (and sunny!) South Devon. Continue reading “Toughie No 2961”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Good morning. Perhaps a little tougher than the average back-pager, but chockful of superb clues, elegant deceptions and amusing surfaces. Continue reading “DT 30151”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Hola from Vega Baja on a slightly chilly morning. However we’re forecast to get 23°C this afternoon which will be nice if it happens.
Today’s crossword needs a bit of general knowledge but it’s mostly OK. There’s a few anagrams dotted about the grid so I think most of you will be fine. The third difficulty star is because of the GK required.
Continue reading “DT 30150”
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I found this at the difficult end of the Toughie spectrum, equivalent to a Thursday or maybe Friday Toughie rather than the somewhat gentler Tuesday level that Zandio says Mr Ed. is aiming for. I needed my dictionary for a couple of obscurities, (if the unit of magnetic field strength was the first thing to mind you are a better cruciverbalist than I)
When the long down clues revealed themselves I picked up the pace a little but it was still a bit of a grind (rather like an 8d innings!) With 20d I have a definition and an answer but the wordplay eludes me, any ideas?
Anyway, this isn’t getting the baby bathed.
Here we go…
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“Who is Inkling?” we ask. We will have to solve this puzzle to see whether there is the familiar style of a setter hiding under a new pseudonym or whether the setter is new to us.… Continue reading