Toughie No 1061 by Osmosis
Lost for words
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
This puzzle is not too difficult, but a fair bit harder than yesterday’s.
Category: Osmosis
Osmosis is Michael Warburton. He is also Scorpion of the Independent and Aardvark of the Financial Times.
Toughie 1045
Toughie No 1045 by Osmosis
Pointing the way
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Cleo is helping me with today’s typical Osmosis puzzle. A few bits of tricky wordplay, but enjoyable nonetheless.
Toughie 1027
Toughie No 1027 by Osmosis
Follow the yellow-brick road
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ****
I found this Toughie to be slow-going at first, but once the answers fell into place things speeded up. For several of the clues it was a case of “guessing” the answers and then fitting them to the wordplay.
Toughie 1013
Toughie No 1013 by Osmosis
Another Sleepy Day in Gotham City
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
A Boy Wonder writes:-
Greetings from the Batcave! Zonk! Crash!! Pow!!! Holy Wobblybits! Something is wrong today, Batman. Normally I find today’s setter hangs out with the other nefarious villains like Evil Elgar The Enigmatist and Malevolent Myops, the Caledonian Crusher, but he’s come over all fluffy, Maybe he’s lulling us into a false sense of security, Batman!
A Caped Crusader writes:-
All had been quiet in Gotham City for the last nine months, suddenly an urgent call came from Commissioner Dave. Bleeding Gums Tilsit was unable to review today’s Toughie. Alfred rushed down to the Batcave and readied the Batmobile, and the Boy Wonder and I arrived just in time to rescue the day.
Toughie 995
Toughie No 995 by Osmosis
No F in Answers
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I thought that this was a pangram but when I came to check it out I found that it had one letter missing. As usual with Osmosis we get a lot of fairly complicated wordplay, especially insertions and reversals – personally I prefer this type of clue to having masses of anagrams, but others may disagree.
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Toughie 985
Toughie No 985 by Osmosis
Putting faces to the names
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from the Terpsichoreans (that’s not a recently discovered group of Greek islands!) As you may know, there was a gathering of the great and the good of the crossword world in Wapping yesterday and your dancing duo were there.
Toughie 969
Toughie No 969 by Osmosis
You lucky people!
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
A typical Osmosis puzzle with, for me, no stand-out clues.
Toughie 955
Toughie No 955 by Osmosis
Woman Hitler? (6-2-3)
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This isn’t a terribly difficult Toughie with the four long clues round the periphery giving me a good start, but I did find it enjoyable.
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Toughie 945
Toughie No 945 by Osmosis
A stimulating puzzle!
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
You know what you are going to get with an Osmosis puzzle. Very few high points but no groan-inducing clues.
Toughie 931
Toughie No 931 by Osmosis
Hurricane? What hurricane?
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **/***
Today we have a fairly straightforward puzzle (although I appreciate that some references may have non-UK residents scratching their heads). As usual with Osmosis there are lots of clues where we have to add or subtract individual letters.
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