Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
Friday’s current setter is Don Manley who is also known as Giovanni, Duck, Pasquale, Quixote, and Bradman (all punningly connected with the name Don or Donald)
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30016
Hints and tips by Miffypops with a bit of help from StephenL
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Miffypops Rating – Difficulty Last nights beer had an effect – Enjoyment I enjoy them all, ish. This was a delight
Beavers rating (I think he liked it) Difficulty ****** – Enjoyment *****
Good Morning Continue reading “DT 30016”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Good Morning from North Yorkshire. Deep Threat is still on holiday so I am back for another go at the back pager. I am also at work until 18:30 so apart from a brief visit during my lunch break I will be unable to comment.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Good morning everyone from a sunny South Devon.
My turn to stand in for Deep Threat today. I was feeling a little hungover after the jubilee celebrations 🇬🇧 but a sea swim has cleared it and the setter (Zandio?) has given us a very fine puzzle, no obscurities just clever wordplay, Continue reading “DT 30004”
Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 29998
Hints and tips by Miffypops
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good Morning from the bottom of the Barrel. Deep Threat is on holiday in France so we’ve generously given him a full break from blogging. Today we have a fine puzzle from one of my favourite setters. Continue reading “DT 29998”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good Morning from North Yorkshire. Deep Threat is having a well earned holiday, so Miffypops, Stephen L and myself will be rotating Friday blogging duties until he returns refreshed,
I have no real idea of gauging ratings so I will leave those alone for others to assess.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs. I have other commitments today, so no pictures or music for you.
I thought this was a fairly typical Friday puzzle. It took me well into *** time, but that may have been because I was very tired when solving it last night.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs where we have a sunny start, but rain forecast later.
The parsing of a couple of today’s clues gave me some amount of headscratching, but I enjoyed the overall result.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from chilly, grey South Staffs.
A pretty standard Friday crossword for me, taking just into *** time.
In the hints below, the definitions are underlined.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs. A cloudy start to the day, with some sun forecast for later.
A reasonably straightforward puzzle today, with no particular hold-ups for me.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs this sunny Good Friday morning.
We have one of ProXimal’s trademark X-less pangras this morning (though I see that he has also set the Toughie today, so I may be wrong).… Continue reading