Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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Today’s puzzles have kindly been provided by Phil McNeill, the Telegraph’s Puzzles Editor.
In view of the improved performance on the Telegraph Puzzles site, this will be the final day that this facility will be provided.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
It’s my lucky day again – a Toughie from one of my favourite setters.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
A couple of weeks ago I asked whether having only two anagrams in a puzzle was a record. Well, if it was it’s been well and truly beaten today because this one has none at all. How refreshing! It does mean that we get a lot of charade-type clues but I’m not going to complain about that. Give us a comment with your views.
To see an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the clue.
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Today’s puzzles have kindly been provided by Phil McNeill, the Telegraph’s Puzzles Editor.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
After doing yesterday’s excellent crossword late in the afternoon sat outside in the sunshine with a glass of wine, I got to do this equally excellent crossword from Rufus this morning in the dark and cold with a cup of tea. I thought this was a bit harder and more trickier than we usually get on a Monday morning but that didn’t detract from my enjoyment. Last corner to fall was the NE with 1a and 2d holding me up for a little while.
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Today’s puzzles have kindly been provided by Phil McNeill, the Telegraph’s Puzzles Editor.
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Today’s puzzle can be downloaded from the previous post.
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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Today’s puzzles have kindly been provided by Phil McNeill, the Telegraph’s Puzzles Editor.
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Hieroglyph makes a return to the NTSPP with a themed crossword. All of the across clues’ answers relate to the theme of {CHEESE}. The trick with this type of theme is to make the answers easily solvable from the wordplay so that even if the answer is a word of which you have never heard, you can be reasonably confident that you have arrived at the right answer before checking it. Here, I think Hieroglyph has succeeded.
Favourite clues are highlighted in blue.
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a tastily themed puzzle by Hieroglyph.