Toughie No 2900 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment *****
Sparks gives us a fun pangram today
Please leave a comment telling us what you thought.… Continue reading
Category: Sparks
Sparks is the name used by Mark Kelmanson for Toughies. He is known elsewhere as Monk (M on K, his initials)
Toughie 2868
Toughie No 2868 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
A nice puzzle from sparks with some ready entries but also quite a few that had me puzzling a while.… Continue reading
Toughie 2827
Toughie No 2827 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
It’s been some considerable time since I had the pleasure of blogging a Sparks production so I was delighted to find him appearing on a Thursday.… Continue reading
Toughie 2804
Toughie No 2804 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Halcyon
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Dutch has become unexpectedly unavailable to blog today and CrypticSue (you can see Crypticsue’s blog below – BD) has suffered a power cut.… Continue reading
Toughie 2788
Toughie No 2788 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ****
A few answers I was not familiar with and the parsing of 13a took me just over 3* time.… Continue reading
Toughie 2764
Toughie No 2764 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
A gentle offering today from Sparks. Just as well, I started this a bit late.… Continue reading
Toughie 2748
Toughie No 2748 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Sparks includes a little theme in a fun puzzle – maybe you can help me with 6d! Continue reading “Toughie 2748”
Toughie 2716
Toughie No 2716 by Sparks
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment ***
Not sure where Dutch is today, but here’s a quickly bashed out set of Hints and Tips Continue reading “Toughie 2716”
Toughie 2700
Toughie No 2700 by Sparks
Hints and tips by crypticsue
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
A lovely proper Friday Toughie from Sparks Continue reading “Toughie 2700”
Toughie 2684
Toughie No 2684 by Sparks
Hints and tips by Dutch
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Ah, only just spotted the Nina. The central row is the pen name of the gentleman in the outer columns.… Continue reading