Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
Saturday’s puzzles alternate between Peter Chamberlain, who is also known as Cephas, and another setter
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A bright sunny, thankfully frost-free, Saturday morning brings a, slightly tricky in places, Saturday Prize Puzzle with a palindromic number
Continue reading “DT 30203 (Hints)”
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Some very wet and windy weather means that this is the ideal day to be indoors solving crosswords. Continue reading “DT 30197 (Hints)”
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A dark, damp and unseasonably warm New Year’s Eve brings another Saturday Prize Puzzle with an opportunity to play ‘guess the setter’. Continue reading “DT 30185 (Hints)”
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A Saturday Prize Puzzle for Christmas Eve without any seasonal references at all
Continue reading “DT 30179 (Hints)”
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Another freezing cold day here in East Kent which seemed to make everything I had to do this morning quite a bit slower and that was before I had to try and find the crossword, the newspaper version being hidden behind an excessive number of advertisements for a particular perfume.
Continue reading “DT 30173 (Hints)”
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Good morning from a beautifully sunny frosty morning here in East Kent. It is very cold – as I type, the temperature has reached the dizzy heights of -1oC, it was -4 oC when I set off for Sainsburys at 8 o’clock.
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On a very dark, cold and windy Saturday morning, we have what I thought was a fairly typical Saturday Prize Puzzle.
Continue reading “DT 30161 (Hints)”
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A damp but sunny morning here in East Kent brings a Saturday Prize Puzzle, which, once I had stopped being disconcerted by the new font in the newspaper version, and noticed quite a few anagrams and hidden words, didn’t take me that long to solve. Continue reading “DT 30155 (Hints)”
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A grey and damp morning brings a fairly typical Saturday Prize Puzzle, which was good for me because, apart from the solving of the crossword, nothing else is going particularly well so far today. I have an idea who is going to turn up to admit to being the setter – I wonder who will agree with me?
Continue reading “DT 30149 (Hints)”