Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
Giovanni is Don Manley, who is also known as Duck, Pasquale, Quixote, and Bradman (all punningly connected with the name Don or Donald), and is the current Friday setter
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When I first accessed this from the Puzzles site early this morning clue 27a was repeated as 27d which caused a problem with the grid. |
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I thought that this was a proper midweek Toughie which I enjoyed.… Continue reading
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The run of gentle Wednesday Toughies has been brought to an end by this one requiring quite a lot of looking up – my copy of the BRB, already tatty, is now in danger of falling to pieces.… Continue reading
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Even though Giovanni has given us a couple of terms from his book of obscurities they are very fairly clued and there’s not an Old Testament character in sight.… Continue reading
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Giovanni has given us what I found to be a fairly tricky puzzle, though that may be because I was up half the night following the US shenanigans – doesn’t the way our elections are run seem a model of efficiency by comparison?… Continue reading
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It was all going so well with very little in the way of obscurities until I reached the SE corner where 24d (for the meaning) and 28a (for the parsing) caused a bit of difficulty and made me increase the difficulty rating by half a star.… Continue reading
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Giovanni has cut down on the religious obscurities today and given us an entertaining puzzle with a pair of excellent anagrams, though there were still a couple of unknowns for me.… Continue reading
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I got through this puzzle at a stately rather than brisk pace and I enjoyed unravelling it.… Continue reading
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As I may have mentioned once or twice before I do prefer Toughies which are based on complex wordplay rather than obscure GK.… Continue reading
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Last week I commended Serpent for giving us a Toughie where the difficulties came from tricky wordplay rather than obscure vocabulary but this week we have just the opposite.… Continue reading