Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ****
Morning All! I was late solving this due to work commitments and am late blogging it for the same reason!. Luckily I have a day off in lieu of working the weekends so the Down clues will be up in about half an hour. All in all I found this a really fun solve.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment ***
A relatively fast solve with just a couple to hold me up at the end.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ***
Morning All! I only solved this last night but was very glad I did as I found it enjoyable and of a fair degree of difficulty
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ***
Morning All! I’m fairly sure that this was a Cephas production. A couple of chestnuts and some good charades made it a pretty fair puzzle for all.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ***
Morning All! This was a pretty fast solve and certainly up to the usual standards in enjoyment and smoothness.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ****
Morning All! THere were some lovely cryptic and double definitions here and the rest worked really well as well!
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Today is your last chance to enter the October Monthly Prize Puzzle.
Your blogging team will be strongly represented at the London convention today, so you will be in the hands of a much smaller team. Many thanks to gnomethang who has volunteered to set the ball rolling before he too heads off for Wapping. BD
As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *– Enjoyment ***
Morning All!. There were some lovely clues here but I found the amount of straight insertion clues to make the rest a bit of a write-in. Hence one star for the solving time.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **– Enjoyment ****
Morning All!. A puzzle that I really enjoyed. There were a few clues that caused a bit of trouble but the penny drop moments were well worth the effort.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
Morning All!. I found this a very enjoyable puzzle that just stayed inside **** territory based on my solving time. The parsing of some of the clues and the surface readings greatly increased my enjoyment and satisfaction.