Sunday Toughie No 43 by Robyn
Review by Sloop John Bee
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This puzzle was published on the 20th of November 2022
Tag: 43
Sunday Toughie 43 (Hints)
Sunday Toughie No 43 by Robyn
Hints and Tips by Sloop John Bee
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I found this at the difficult end of the Toughie spectrum, equivalent to a Thursday or maybe Friday Toughie rather than the somewhat gentler Tuesday level that Zandio says Mr Ed. is aiming for. I needed my dictionary for a couple of obscurities, (if the unit of magnetic field strength was the first thing to mind you are a better cruciverbalist than I)
When the long down clues revealed themselves I picked up the pace a little but it was still a bit of a grind (rather like an 8d innings!) With 20d I have a definition and an answer but the wordplay eludes me, any ideas?
Anyway, this isn’t getting the baby bathed.
Here we go…