Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning. An entertaining mix of clues, mostly of moderate difficulty, with a handful of outliers either on the easy side or needing a bit more thought. Continue reading “DT 30193”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja on a typical January morning – sunny but chilly. Hopefully things will warm up a bit as the day goes on.
Today’s puzzle is a typical Monday offering in that it’s very enjoyable and mostly quite benign, but it has a couple of stings in the tail and a bit of GK needed.
Continue reading “DT 30192”
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Welcome to Sunday Toughie 50. A bit of a brain mangling last night and the ensuing lie-in have put me a bit behind so I better get on with hinting half of an uneven 14a/16d clues. No booze today and even the “leaf soup” at 18a is not strong enough to refresh my brain this morning. A couple of Americanisms and a couple of “Canadianisms” too. Some trademark proXimal clues too, extraction anagrams and removal of covering letters
Here we go, Folks…
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Dave Hennings’ crossword database tells us that Gaston sets uniquely for the Enigmatic Variations series.… Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg – where, with ‘warmer’ temperatures on several days this week, we had foggy starts which resulted in picturesque rime ice formation on the ‘bare’ trees.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
Another near-pangram, no Z. I slowly got through 3 quadrants then came a cropper in NE – took me ages – my last ones in were 6d and 13a (and I’m still not sure I’ve parsed 13a right – PS: I didn’t!… Continue reading