Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment **/***
Hello everyone from a gloriously sunny and mild South Devon coast. As it’s my last blog before the “big day” I’d like to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and festive period.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
Good morning. A puzzle with a widely varying degree of difficulty for me: a few early write-ins, many that required a few pauses to eliminate the possibilities, and a handful at the end that I had to think long and hard about. Continue reading “DT 30175”
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja. Christmas will be over by the next Monday puzzle so may I wish all our readers a very merry one and best wishes for the new year too. We’re off to Benidorm again this year after staying home for a couple of years due to Covid restrictions.
Our Monday Maestro is on good form today with an enjoyable puzzle at the benign end of his difficulty range. A couple of bits of GK required in 8a and 16d but if you know it the puzzle is really only * difficulty. If you don’t know it you’ll need a bit of investigoogling but it shouldn’t be too hard to get to the answers. There are eight clues involving anagrams so you should be able to get off to a good start.
Continue reading “DT 30174”
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Welcome from a frosty Yorkshire, but far from the Canadian level of cold Senf is enduring.
I could have saved myself from the final tricky solves last night if I had noticed the view answers button that was available on the old website, but when I got to the tricky ones and saw it I was determined to not succumb to the temptation. This morning the new website seems to be behaving itself and I have submitted my answers as normal. I think I will revert to scanning and emailing my entry until they sort out the websites
Not a lot of Christmas in today’s clues, those Christmas fruits I don’t like make a reappearance in 27a, but the holly that lurks in 5d is not the lurker (or direction) you seek.
I guess that next weeks online toughie will be a little bit more Christmassy (and tougher) I wonder who will be setting that?
Anyway this isn’t getting the baby bathed
Here we go, Folks…
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We have a new setter name: welcome to Cranberry. As a debut crossword this is no cake-walk.… Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg, where we have been ‘enjoying’ a slower moving than usual Colorado Low which, over three and a half days, added 25cms, plus or minus, to our snow on the ground. … Continue reading
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Another freezing cold day here in East Kent which seemed to make everything I had to do this morning quite a bit slower and that was before I had to try and find the crossword, the newspaper version being hidden behind an excessive number of advertisements for a particular perfume.
Continue reading “DT 30173 (Hints)”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
A fun puzzle with a (2,5,2,2’1,4) Nina that relates to 8 & 13d.… Continue reading