Toughie No 3132 by proXimal
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
proXimal provides a welcome respite from the usual tortuous Friday toughie. Once I had a way in, this went fairly smoothly. NW was last. Nice smooth surfaces
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Toughie No 3128 by Elgar
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Friday toughie time – lots to like today. I don’t know how he does it!
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Toughie No 3124 by Osmosis
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A cute Nina today. We have the usual baffling definitions from Osmosis that look so much better in hindsight. My lateral thinking is beginning to let me down.… Continue reading
Toughie No 3120 by Elgar
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Another great Friday Toughie
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1a Boff one receives from draught horse (6-5)
SUCKER-PUNCH: A word for ‘One receives from draught’ (as in pulling in air or liquid) and a kind of horse.… Continue reading
Toughie No 3116 by Sparks
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
Today’s pangram contains a few words I did not know. We also have an intriguing Nina. 85? I don’t think it’s a birthday. What could it be?
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Toughie No 3112 by Elgar
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An ‘easier’ Elgar, though it still took me 5* time. Very enjoyable.
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Toughie No 3108 by Osmosis
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ****
This seemed tricky. I had plenty to parse after filling the grid, and I was still changing the parsing while writing up the blog!. This time the F is missing from a pangram
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Toughie No 3104 by Elgar
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difficulty 5* entertainment 5*
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Toughie No 3100 by Sparks
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That was tricky! The pangram might have helped had I seen it earlier. There is a nice Nina of my favourite Wordle start words.
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Toughie No 3096 by Elgar
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