Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
For me this was one of Ray T’s easier puzzles. As usual you need to think out-of-the-box for some of the answers
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Today we have a welcome return by Dada with a very entertaining puzzle. It’s full of his usual inventive and witty clues but not as tricky as he can be. I have a feeling that he’s being slightly constrained, but I’m quite happy with that as long as he stays in the Wednesday slot. 
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Today we have the usual enjoyable offering from Jay – one that I thought tended toward the less difficult end of the scale.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
When you see MynoT as the setter there is usually a theme in the offing but, apart from a few fishy references, there doesn’t seem to be anything today. [Wrong again! Thanks to Qix for pointing out that the theme is a work from a series by Edith Sitwell.]
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment **
This is a pretty gentle puzzle for a Tuesday. My problem with it is not its relative ease, but that the compiler seems to have put all his/her effort into getting the wordplay right without paying too much attention to the surface readings. As a result the surface in a number of the clues is clunky or meaningless. Do you agree or disagree? – let us know in a comment.
In the unlikely event that you need to see an answer just drag your cursor through the space between the brackets under the clue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Apologies for the somewhat late arrival of the blog. As you are probably aware there are problems with the Telegraph Puzzles site. However crypticsue came to the rescue after a visit to the newsagents and the use of a scanner. The crossword on the other hand is exactly what we expect from Rufus on a Monday.
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Apparently the server used by Telegraph Puzzles was struck by lightning. Last night Phil McNeill left a comment on the ST 2600 post, which I have copied here:
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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.
Hieroglyph marks his return to the NTSPP with a crossword that will delight those who like anagrams. 14 of the clues involve full or partial anagrams – 21 if you count the separate words in the long anagram at 1a.
The preponderance of anagrams made this a very easy crossword to solve – one of the easiest to date in the NTSPP series. Being able to get the long solution from just the enumeration undoubtedly helped but a little more variety in the clues would have been welcome for this solver.
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Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have our second puzzle from Hieroglyph. Solve the long anagram and you’ve done nearly half the puzzle!