Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***Â – Enjoyment ****
A very good Wednesday morning from Winnipeg where we have our first major Alberta Clipper of the season.… Continue reading
Sunday Toughie No 148 by
Robyn
Review by Sloop John Bee
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This puzzle was published on the 24th of November 2024
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This puzzle was published on 24th November 2024
BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Greetings from Kolkata. A tough yet entertaining puzzle from Dada this Sunday that I enjoyed solving and thereafter writing a full review of his puzzle for your kind perusal and valuable feedback.
Continue reading “ST 3292 (full review)”
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ****
Pretty straightforward, I’d say. Some schoolboy French, a little GK and a smidgeon of vocab.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** Enjoyment ***Â
An enjoyable Anthony Plumb puzzle. I found it a fair bit trickier in the south than yesterday but suspect I may have made rather harder work of it than I ought to have.
After 4 lovely rounds of golf in the sunny Algarve last week it was back to the reality of splodging along rain sodden fairways yesterday in a staff v members day. I think I’m going to put the clubs away until next year.
In the following hints, definitions are underlined, indicators are mostly in parentheses, and answers are revealed by clicking where shown as usual. Please leave a comment below on how you got on with the puzzle.
Hello to everybody attempting today’s Telegraph cryptic crossword. If you get stuck, or you have an answer but you aren’t sure why it’s the answer, then the hints below should help. (If they don’t, then that’s my fault; do leave a comment saying what’s unclear, and somebody from the friendly community here will explain whatever it is I didn’t.)
Usually Monday is the only day of the week in which I both work from home and don’t walk the 10-year-old to school, which is handy for fitting in pre-work solving and bloggling. But today I need to head into the office, so apologies for the lack of pictures below. (Alternatively, if I did find time to add some pictures, apologies for leaving in the previous sentence, which I failed to remove. I’m writing this introduction on Sunday, before I’ve even seen the puzzle.)
Sunday Toughie No 149
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It took me a little longer than normal to 7d this last night but I was watching the snooker. The Snooker was a bit of a grind, and the crossword was done before the final frame. I hope **** recovers as he is playing in the final right now (I redacted myself as you may be watching the highlights later)
As usual proXimal starts with an easy (to Sloop John Bee) Spoonerism we have a couple of extraction/compound anagrams and several homophones. Dinner would appear to be 13a served with a Spanish redÂ
I have hinted half of an even 14a and 14d clues and hope you find the checkers to “pot the final black”
Here we go, Folks…
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I asked ChatGPT, “In a themed crossword, what might a thematic word ‘being an example of good health’ be?”
A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where the mercury is staying below zero and ice is forming on the rivers!
For me, and I stress for me, Dada reasonably friendly, and we must have seen this grid before – four long ‘uns, eight anagrams (three partials), one lurker, and one homophone all in a symmetric 28 clues; with 14 hints ‘sprinkled’ throughout the grid you should be able to get the checkers to enable the solving of the unhinted clues. … Continue reading