Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment **
Morning All! This was a firm one star difficulty and this meant that I found it a bit flat – a few too many chestnuts in it personally.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
Morning All! I really enjoyed this puzzle – It just about hit 3 star territory for difficulty but the stiffer clues were highly enjoyable. Continue reading “ST 2819”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment ***
Morning All! This one went in remarkably quickly for me and I usually prefer a stiffer test on a Sunday but the puzzle featured the usual fine constructions. Continue reading “ST 2818”
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ***
Morning All!. Lots of word sums in the puzzle this week. It made it quite straightforward to solve but there were a couple of really good clues for me.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ***
Morning All!. I found this quite straightforward apart from the dreaded 8a which I still don’t like and a couple of clues where I led myself down the garden path or else missed the wordplay. The rest was quite straightforward with a few clues that I quite enjoyed.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
Morning All!. THis puzzle was definitely in 3 star territory for me due to some exceptionally smooth and concise clues.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
Morning All!. THis puzzle was in 3 star territory for me although I am not sure why having written it up. Probably the smoothness of the surface readings makes it hard to insert the mental crow-bar to prise it apart.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment **
This puzzle was published on 12th September 2015
Morning All! This puzzle just strayed into ** territory for difficulty but for some reason I didn’t find it very edifying. THer were a couple of clues that I enjoyed but I spent a lot of time scratching my head on surface readings.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment ***
This puzzle was published on 5th September 2015
Morning All! Not much to say about this one. It was definite Lone Star territory for difficulty (an opinion generally shared on the day) and apart from a couple of clues I didn’t care for much I thought that there were some very good surface readings.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ***
Morning All! I solved this on the day then forgot where I put the paper so had to re-solve last night. It wasn’t too tricky but some of the clues needed unwinding in the explanations.