Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
After yesterday’s pretty tough start to the new year we’re back on gentler ground today with an enjoyable puzzle.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Donnybrook’s last Toughie was a tutorial in the classics but this one is far more user friendly.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment **/***
We have rather a lot of GK references (mainly relating to classical times) today which reduced the enjoyment somewhat for me and had me upping the difficulty level.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***
This was a fairly gentle puzzle to get me back into blogging mode after a two-week absence gallivanting round Scotland.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment **
Today we have a solid though not terribly sparkling puzzle with plenty of ways in but a few clues where (for me at any rate) assistance had to be sought from Mr Google and Mr B R Book to verify that what the wordplay was suggesting was indeed known.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
Fairly straightforward but pleasurable – thanks Donnybrook.
Please leave a comment telling us how you fared and what you thought of it.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I had few problems today. There were no words that I hadn’t met before and it all went in fairly easily
Please leave a comment telling us what you thought. Continue reading “Toughie 2054”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This is an enjoyable midweek Toughie with a number of penny drop moments, although when writing the blog I noticed that there did seem to be a largeish number of insert/contain constructs.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
Last time I struggled with a Donnybrook puzzle that others found straightforward.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
I enjoyed this puzzle where what difficulties there were came from clever misdirections rather than obscure vocabulary (good).… Continue reading