Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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Welcome back to Hieroglyph with an excellent crossword. All the across clues have a theatrical theme in the wordplay (if not in all of the answers). Knowing the theme is not essential to solving the clues themselves.
My favourites are highlighted in blue below.
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Chaz returns to entertain us with another crossword that reveals his reading habits! Favourite clues are highlighted in blue. Let us what you liked and disliked in the comments below.
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A welcome back to Alchemi with his second puzzle on these pages. As an added treat, his debut crossword on Alberich’s crossword site is also available here:
http://www.alberichcrosswords.com/pages/alchemi.html
Today’s crossword was enjoyable. I have highlighted my favourite clues in blue. There were perhaps too many anagrams in the wordplay, but for those who like them in abundance, this crossword will be right up your street.
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Welcome back to Radler with a cheeky crossword whose theme was prophetically announced by Spindrift when commenting on today’s Daily Telegraph crossword. This is a crossword with several double entendres alluded to by the answer to the long across clues as 11, 17 and 15 across (a brilliant anagram for the theme which fits perfectly within it).
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Gazza’s usual cheeky style and impecable worplay shines through once again in this crossword. Favourite clues are highlighted in blue.
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Hieroglyph makes a return to the NTSPP with a themed crossword. All of the across clues’ answers relate to the theme of {CHEESE}. The trick with this type of theme is to make the answers easily solvable from the wordplay so that even if the answer is a word of which you have never heard, you can be reasonably confident that you have arrived at the right answer before checking it. Here, I think Hieroglyph has succeeded.
Favourite clues are highlighted in blue.
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For those unfamiliar with this form of torture, an Alphabetical Jigsaw requires the solver to solve the clues and then fit the answers in to the grid without knowing which answer goes where. Continue reading “NTSPP – 088 (Review)”
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We welcome Alchemi on board with a cracking debut puzzle full of inventive clues and a cracking anagram at 3/9d. Many thanks to him for the crossword and to Jetdoc for recommending him. Hopefully it will not be too long before he appears here again.
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Welcome back to Gazza with another Ray T type crossword with wit and innuedno and smoothly built clues. My favourites are shown in blue below.
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Hieroglyph makes a welcome return to the NTSPP pages with an engaging crossword that should not leave you tearing your hair out. I thought that this crossword was much better than his last with more variety in the cluing. Favourite clues have been highlighted below in blue.