Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
May I take this opportunity to wish all of the setters, the bloggers and the solvers a happy New Year! A quite enjoyable crossword today, but 11 anagrams?
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I gave this two stars for difficult today, mainly because I had to think about 27d for a little while. Otherwise an entertaining if not overly cryptic themed (Winter and New Year) puzzle from Rufus today.
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
A piece of (Christmas) cake! (Thanks to Gazza for that).
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
I am not expecting anybody to need the blog today…
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Pretty straight forward stuff today from Rufus, but still as entertaining as ever.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment *****
This crossword from Rufus gets five stars for enjoyment because it is 25 years since his first Telegraph crossword was published. So I would like to add my congratulations to what I suspect will be many.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
A very enjoyable crossword from Rufus to start the week.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Standard stuff from Rufus this morning although I didn’t think the cryptic defintions were as good as usual. I also had to do some serious thinking to remember the phrase at 8a.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment **
I quite enjoyed doing the crossword, but became more and more cranky about it when I was putting the blog together. In fact so much so that it was a struggle to finish it. It wasn’t that the various constructs used in the clues are particularly difficult to extract, but more because the wordplay used seems so repetitive and “bitty”. At one point I did start looking for a pangram, but it’s not.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
What a difference the extra hour makes. I did the crossword in nice bright sunshine this morning. Nowhere near as good as last weeks, but still relatively enjoyable all the same. Favourite clue 28a.