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)
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A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg.
proXimal was ‘on duty’ last Friday, so if today’s setter is indeed one of the Friday triumvirate my five bob is on this being a Zandio production; if it is not him then I am clueless.… Continue reading
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A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg.
Zandio was ‘on duty’ last Friday, Silvanus was on back page duty yesterday, so my five bob was on this being a proXimal production even before, on completion, I saw that we have an X-less pangram.… Continue reading
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A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg.
Silvanus was ‘on duty’ last Friday, proXimal was on Toughie duty yesterday, so my five bob is saying that this a Zandio production.… Continue reading
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A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg.
So, we seem to have a trend developing where one of the Friday triumvirate is the setter for a non-Ray T Thursday – Silvanus two weeks ago and proXimal yesterday. … Continue reading
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A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg.
As he was on Toughie duty yesterday this is unlikely to be a Silvanus production; it can happen, we did have him for Thursday Toughie/Friday back pager 6 weeks ago but, according to the myth, lightning never strikes in the same place twice. … Continue reading
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A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg.
Amazingly, after yesterday’s loss I did find another five bob in loose change by looking down the side of chair cushions, so, as we have a Pangra where the missing letter is the 24th of the alphabet, I am confident in saying that this is a proXimal production.… Continue reading
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A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg.
The ‘smoothness’ of the clues suggests to me that Silvanus is the red hot odds-on favourite to be today’s setter so I don’t think that Huntsman is going to get much of a return on the five bob that he was prepared to risk yesterday.… Continue reading
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A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg where we are at the beginning of a holiday weekend – for us it is our version of Thanksgiving, while our Southern neighbours will celebrate Columbus not finding the land mass on which they reside.… Continue reading
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A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg.
After last week’s topsy-turviness, back to a regular roster of setters for this week. So, which member of the Friday triumvirate do we have today? … Continue reading
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A very good Friday morning from Winnipeg.
Somewhat of a topsy-turvy week for setters with the CL ‘special’ on Monday, and Jay and Ray T ‘absent’ from the back page as they were in their Toughie alter egos. … Continue reading