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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BD Rating - Difficulty **** - Enjoyment **
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. I thought that this puzzle had some clues that were straightforward to parse and a few that were not. I spent a long time pondering those, which left no time to search for pictures. They should return next week. Continue reading "DT 30718"
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BD Rating – Difficulty *****+ – Enjoyment ****
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BD Rating - Difficulty ** - Enjoyment ****
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. I thought that while today’s puzzle was more straightforward that the average Friday offering, it delivered well above average enjoyment. It features four three-letter answers with excellent clues, which is not an easy accomplishment. Great work all round by our setter. Continue reading "DT 30712"
Toughie No 3332 by Artix
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
It was a pleasure to see the name of Artix when I printed off the puzzle this morning. He’s not at his most tricky here but it’s an enjoyable Friday Toughie.
Artix regularly incorporates a theme in his puzzles and, just as regularly, I fail to spot it. I look forward to someone explaining today’s to me.
Please leave a comment telling us how you fared and what you liked about the puzzle.
Continue reading “Toughie 3332”
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BD Rating - Difficulty *** - Enjoyment ****
Hello, everyone, and welcome to a fun Friday puzzle. Continue reading "DT 30706"
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BD Rating – Toughie Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
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BD Rating - Difficulty *** - Enjoyment ****
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. I thought today’s puzzle was about right for Friday difficulty-wise and well above average for enjoyment. Continue reading "DT 30700"
Toughie No 3324 by Osmosis
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
We know what to expect from Osmosis – clever wordplay, a dearth of anagrams and very nearly but not quite a pangram (only one letter missing this week as far as I can see). I enjoyed it a lot – thanks to our setter.
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Continue reading “Toughie 3324”
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BD Rating - Difficulty ** - Enjoyment ****
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Friday. I found today’s puzzle positioned at the easier end of the Friday spectrum. It was a lot of fun to solve, with nothing too chewy in the parsing. I hope that our setter will drop in later to take a bow. Continue reading "DT 30694"
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Elgar provides a fitting tribute to his regular Toughie blogger, seeing the theme early allows me to reduce the difficulty one * but the enjoyment stays at the maximum
You could probably apply the 7d prefix to most words in this or any other crossword but I have highlighted as many as possible. I learned a lot about Marrowfat (8d) and the custom of giving bread to the king’s youngest child (6d) and my history knowledge of the events of 1924 has come on leaps and bounds (1a). This turophile is ashamed to have not fully parsed 29a pleased to have finally parsed 29a
The music links today are as near as I can find to those played at the Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving although Richard’s own recording of Always on my Mind is not available to me
The plethora of thematic elements were obvious highlights but 2d belongs on my podium too What were your favourites?
