Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
Daily Telegraph Vintage No 14
Hints and Tips by Rossophile
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** Enjoyment **
This was written the year after I was born. It might have put me off crosswords (and poetry) for life, had I been able to read and write. However, despite the unconventional clueing, here is my interpretation
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Sunday Toughie No 185
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As I was solving this last night the following popped up on Bluesky;
Hi John
Assuming you’re on prize Toughie duty today, the interactive puzzle (Firefox / iMac) has ‘Kova?i?’ at 7d. It should be Kovačić. Obviously, some software doesn’t like the diacritics.
It’s fine in the facsimile of the newsprint version, so hopefully fine in the actual newspaper too.
Thanks
Michael
I hope that misprint didn’t affect your enjoyment of some lovely surfaces, and once I had revised my grammar prep and musical notation, I enjoyed this a lot.
Here we go, Folks…
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Stick Insect has been known to set the occasional numerical puzzle as well as regular cryptics.… Continue reading
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where the ‘back to school ads’ are starting to appear. Time for those who need to to start thinking about getting their offspring of all ages organised for September.
For me, and I stress for me,© Dada quirkily friendly with 2 long ‘uns, 8 anagrams (4 partials), 2 lurkers, and 1 homophone all in an asymmetric 28 clues; with 14 hints plus a bonus hint ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid, you should be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues. And, remember, my electronic blue pencil is at the ready and the Naughty Step is OPEN!