Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
Monday’s regular setter is Roger Squires, who is also known as Rufus
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where it is finally feeling very springlike with the days rapidly getting longer and the snow cover quickly receding – the roads and driveways are bare but there is still two or three feet of the white stuff on lawns.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where the weather has settled down and is tracking the normal pattern for this time of year – a few degrees above zero during the day and a few degrees below zero at night.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from Almoradí on another chilly but sunny morning. Forecast is for 21°C later today so that will be pleasant and then it’s high twenties going into next week. Perhaps spring has sprung!
A pretty normal Monday puzzle today. It’s mostly benign but there’s a couple of head scratchers and a few bits of complicated wordplay. Overall it’s very enjoyable as is usual from this setter.
Continue reading “DT 30240”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from Almoradí, heart of the Vega Baja on a beautiful sunny, but chilly, morning. The move went off well and in a few hours I’ll have been in the new place for a whole week.
Today’s puzzle is the usual Monday fare but I thought it a tad trickier than some Mondays have been. However, that could just be me having an off morning having had a very busy week sorting out the new home. It will be interesting to see what you all make of it.
Continue reading “DT 30234”
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Greetings from Ottawa, where the final weekend of Winterlude (our winter carnival) has largely melted away in warm temperatures far exceeding historical averages. Colder air from Manitoba is due to arrive in a few days – unfortunately too late to rescue our celebration.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where the weather is unseasonably warm. We are in the midst of Winterlude, our annual three-week winter festival, but many of the attractions such as snow and ice sculptures have melted and the Rideau Canal skateway likely will not open for a single day this year due to the warm weather.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hola for the last time from the village of El Saladar. You’ll have Falcon in the chair next week and on the Monday after that you’ll have him again because on that day pommette and I are moving house. The village is a little isolated so we’re moving to an apartment near the centre of Almoradí, just a short walk from loads of bars, restaurants, shops, town square and the health centre (you can see my order of priorities there!). So, my next blog will be from a new home!
Continue reading “DT 30216”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where we are awaiting the arrival of the blast of frigid weather that Senf mentioned yesterday. Thankfully, it is forecast to have moderated considerably by the time it reaches us.… Continue reading
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Hola from the Vega Baja on the coldest morning of the year to date. It was a shivering 3°C at 0800 this morning! Hopefully it will warm up a bit after 0930 when the suns gets over our rear wall.
“Today’s puzzle is a typical Monday offering in that it’s very enjoyable and mostly quite benign, but it has a couple of stings in the tail and a bit of GK needed”. That’s what I wrote in the preamble to my last blog and it’s equally relevant today so it may as well stay. I really enjoyed the tussle with this one and look forward to hearing how you got on with it.
Continue reading “DT 30204”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Ottawa, where we received a substantial dump of snow late last week. At least this time it was light and fluffy rather than wet and heavy like last time.… Continue reading