Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
I was sailing through this one at a rate of knots until I hit 24a, where the wordplay held me up for ages until the penny finally dropped, swiftly followed by a bout of self-kicking! As usual the answers are hidden inside the curly brackets – select the white space inside the brackets to display the answer, but do try to get it from the hints first.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This is my first attempt at doing a write-up for a Toughie and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s got some challenging clues, as well as some easy ones, and doesn’t have too many obscure words.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
There’s nothing too difficult in today’s Cryptic crossword and the clues range from pretty neat to not so good. I’ve followed Big Dave’s convention in providing the answers hidden inside curly brackets (thanks to him for telling me how to achieve this effect). If you can’t work out the answer from my hint you can reveal it by highlighting the white space inside the curly brackets.
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09.30 – Father Brian reports that the Herculis is now available, but at what price?… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
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Two new problems today.
As reported by Father Brian, the Quick crossword No 40 is not yet available online.
A small change to ST Cryptic No 2473: Continue reading “ScrewedUp News – Mar 1”
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ****
For the weekend prize crosswords I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them. A full analysis of this puzzle will be available at 12.00 next Thursday, March 5th.
Some hints to get you started: Continue reading “ST Cryptic No 2473 – Hints”
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It seems like a lifetime, but it was one month ago today that I started this blog.
On 28th January, there were just 2 hits (both from me!). The following day I published my first Toughie review, and the hit count shot up to 26, with 5 of them actually looking at the review. The average now is between 750 and 1000 hits per day and the review for each puzzle gets looked at from 100 – 200 times for the Toughies up as high as 500 for the Daily cryptic. Continue reading “One Month Old Today”
