Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment *****
A perfect Sunday puzzle – but then what else did we expect from Virgilius?
The definitions are, as usual, underlined and my top favourite clues are shown in blue. Continue reading “ST 2669”
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ***
Virgilius was in enjoyably straightforward mode with this puzzle. No particular favourites, and as usual with one of his crosswords, no grumbles either, just a very nice start to a sunny, if extremely cold, Sunday.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** Enjoyment ***
The Saturday Mysteron provided us with a few tricky elements in this otherwise fairly typical Prize Puzzle.
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** Enjoyment ***
A very enjoyable puzzle from Cephas with a good mix of clues, including his trademark anagrams.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
This one took me slightly longer to solve than recent Virgilius puzzles and I did have to spend extra time sorting out the wordplay for a couple of my solutions . The usual great all-round entertainment we have come to expect on a Sunday morning, and for once solved in brilliant sunshine.
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Congratulations to eXternal who is the winner of our sixth Monthly Prize Puzzle. eXternal’s name was randomly selected, by Mrs BD, from the correct entries received and his very nice prize is the choice of two of The Telegraph All New Cryptic Crosswords Books or The Telegraph All New Toughie Crossword Books.
Another excellent puzzle from Prolixic has a Nina in the form of a question around its perimeter, which I actually noticed for once, as adding the missing letters helped me solve the last few stragglers. I would be interested to learn who knew that the answer to “Who is the Director of Public Prosecutions?” is Keir Starmer QC without resorting as I did to investigoogling!
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ***
A slightly trickier offering from Virgilius this week, two clues causing me more trouble than the rest. A nice mix of clues but no special favourites for me this time.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment *****
A cryptic crossword doesn’t have to be difficult to be wonderfully enjoyable as is proved by this Sunday puzzle which was my puzzle of the week some 11 days ago. My top top favourites have to be 15a and 21d.