Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
The on-line site, far from improving, seems to be getting worse and worse. I dread to think how much time has been wasted in futile attempts to access the puzzles.
This very entertaining puzzle from Giovanni is on a par for difficulty with Wednesday’s Toughie. Let us know how you fared with it.
Good luck to Wales tomorrow morning!
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BD Rating –Difficulty * – Enjoyment **/***
Our Saturday Mysteron provided us with another straightforward but enjoyable start to Saturday morning. However did it contain, as Prolixic pointed out, a hidden message commenting on the problems with the Telegraph Puzzles site? Have a look at the solutions to 26a, 5d and 3d and see what you think.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
When I started I thought this was going provide a struggle. In fact I found it very straightforward but, just in case I was having a good morning and was on the setter’s wavelength, I have left the difficulty rating at 3* after toying with 2*
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
Another excellent puzzle from Ray T that took more time to download from the online site than it did to solve – but the download time was dwarfed by the length of time that it took to submit. We have been promised that by next week all will be resolved – but don’t hold your breath!
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This is only marginally more difficult than one of Giovanni’s Friday back-pagers though it probably has more clues where a smattering of general knowledge is useful. As is often the case I got both long anagrams from the enumeration first and worked out the fodder afterwards (which is why I’m not very keen on long multi-word anagrams). There’s a factual error in 2d but that didn’t impair my enjoyment of the puzzle.
Tell us what you thought of it and please remember to indicate how entertaining you found it by clicking on one of the stars below.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Hola from the Vega Baja. Â First I would like to say a big thanks to the DT crossword editor, Phil McNeill, for emailing me the puzzle at midnight last night, otherwise you might not have had a blog today! Also thanks to Libellule for organising it.
As for the puzzle – a bit trickier than the last couple of weeks, I thought, so I’ve gone for 3* difficulty. Although about 80% of it went in easy enough I sort of ground to a halt on the last 3 or 4 so I’ll blame it on brain fade at 0100CEST! The only thing wrong with this puzzle is a distinct lack of picture opportunities but I’ve had a go (and managed a car)!
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
A relatively easy solve of a puzzle that will not rank as one of Petitjean’s best.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
We have an enjoyable but not too strenuous puzzle today from a mystery setter. Let us know how you got on with it.
If you’re still stuck on a clue after reading the hint you can reveal the answer by highlighting the space between the curly brackets.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
A pleasant return to my usual Monday morning slot with a typical crossword from Rufus.
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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.