Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Maybe it’s just me but I thought this was a fair bit trickier than recent Wednesday puzzles and I found the right hand side a lot harder than the left!  Some excellent clues, as usual, but there are a couple that I think don’t quite work. It will be interesting to hear what others think.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Tuesday does seem to be the slot for the easier Toughies, but I quite enjoyed this one.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Nothing too frightening from the Mysteron today, though he has given us a couple of potential topics to discuss in the form of a politician who’s probably not that well known even in his own household and an old musician who would not have been remembered at all were it not for the woman he married. Let us know what you thought of it.
If you want to reveal an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the relevant clue.
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The £1000 IT Challenge is to produce a FREEWARE computer program to enable a totally blind crossword solver to tackle a 3D crossword puzzle at no cost.
Continue reading “£1000 IT Challenge”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Personally I thought this was a bit trickier than usual for a Monday morning, but thats probably me having a bad day. However it was still fun, especially 23a and 14d for example.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the more difficult clues and provide hints for them.
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Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Prolixic prepared this special puzzle to mark the fact that the best alternative Saturday puzzle in the world has reached no 100.   He has set more of these puzzles than anyone else and this time had a bit of assistance with the clue writing from Gazza and Radler who, along with Anax, Bufo and Hieroglyph, feature in the top six of the NTSPP setters table.
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
For the 100th puzzle, we have a specially themed contribution from Prolixic.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Greetings from the Calder Valley. After a lovely break in the Lake District (embarrassing photos safely locked away), it’s back to the wordface with this beast of a puzzle from Elgar. Thanks to Jon for stepping in and blogging last Friday’s wonderful Micawber puzzle so brilliantly.
There is a theme running through Elgar’s puzzle today related to a famous film dynasty and a couple of their most famous oeuvres, a musical connection to the films and a further musical theme. Value for money indeed from our esteemed setter. The clues are up to the usual high standard with a couple of Downs that take quite a bit of understanding.