Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This puzzle by Kcit is fine and enjoyable but doesn’t really warrant being called a Toughie. In my view it could easily have appeared on the back page.
Let us have your views and please take the time to click on one of the stars below to register your enjoyment.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Hola from the Vega Baja. Another excellent Wednesday puzzle today. On the whole it’s not too hard but it does have the usual 2 or 3 of a distinctly tricky nature. I’ve given it 2* for overall difficulty but if you want to disagree just put your own rating in a post and I’ll average them all as I did last week.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Just over two weeks I had the great pleasure of meeting Warbler and her husband – see photo on the blog’s facebook page. Today I have the great pleasure of reviewing one of her puzzles. Try to solve 24 across early on, as it is the key to several of the other answers.
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment **
Today’s puzzle is pretty gentle, though I’d never heard “wild mare” used to mean the apparatus in 9a. Let us know how you got on with it.
If you want to reveal an answer just slide your cursor through the space between the curly brackets under the clue that’s causing you problems.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
An ideal introduction for new cryptic solvers from Rufus today. Fun but not too difficult.
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This unique tournament was won by Sue and Andy Wallace in the Pairs category. They completed the fiendish 3D spinning jigsaw puzzle (and half the buffet) noting the anniversary of the last Queen concert with associated ‘She’s a Killer Queen’ theme in the recorded time of I hour 37 minutes just pipping ‘2 min 53 sec Times Ace’ John Henderson by 10 minutes. Dr Henderson won the Singles event as well as every single item in the Crossword Tombola! John promptly put all items into a raffle boosting proceeds from the event substantially. The email section was won by Jim Pennington of Aberdeen who completed the puzzle in 2 days 8 hours 18 min. Marianne Cantley and Torqui of Malvanua, Pacific Ocean, came a very close second in this section with a time of 2 days 9 hours 38 min.
Continue reading “The First All England RNIB 3D Crosswords Cup”
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.
BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***
Another fine offering from Prolixic, albeit one I found at the more difficult side both to solve and to work out the explanations for the review. I definitely think he’s getting tougher but his puzzles are still very entertaining. My favourite in this one is 5d for the laugh-out-loud-at-the-vision-it-created.
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have another excellent puzzle from Prolixic!
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, and provide hints for them.