Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating –Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
The Saturday Mysteron’s turn to entertain us this week and he didn’t disappoint. A very entertaining mix of clues, complete with a nice example of relevant back page product placement for those of us who still solve using the newspaper version. Favourites are, as usual, marked in blue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
I was surprised in the middle of the morning to receive an email from BD about today’s puzzle. It hadn’t occurred to me that it was Thursday today and hence my Toughie day. However I soon got my brain into gear and found the puzzle to be yet another non-too-taxing Thursday offering. My only problem was with 22 across but this was caused by my carelessly writing in –ANT at the end of 3 down instead of –ICE.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment *
The disappointment I felt when opening the Quick crossword and finding out that Ray T was not today’s setter was confirmed when I tackled this puzzle.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Obviously my ongoing programme of sacrificing goats is working because once again Wednesday has served up a superb puzzle by the great Micawber. It took me some time to get going but I later speeded up and was, as usual, disappointed when it was all over because I was enjoying it so much.
Please let us know how you got on and take the time to click on one of the stars below to record your enjoyment factor.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Hello from the Vega Baja where it is raining cats and dogs with some spectacular thunder and lightning and my garage roof has started leaking again!
I think this one is a little trickier than recent Wednesdays so I’ve gone for 3* difficulty. I’m sure that some of you will disagree but I think you will agree it’s quite a fun puzzle.
Continue reading “DT 26717”
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Cephas serves up some slightly tougher fare than one of his Saturday puzzles today.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
We have a pretty straightforward puzzle with nothing too exciting today. Let us know what you made of it.
If you want to see an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the troublesome clue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
A very enjoyable crossword from Rufus to start the week.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
I tend to run out of superlatives when reviewing a Notabilis puzzle. This one hits exactly the right mark for the Toughie genre … and there’s a Nina running along the long diagonals to boot!
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BD Rating – Difficulty **/*** – Enjoyment ****
One of the many ways my crosswording life improved after I ‘found’ Big Dave and his blog was that I became a regular solver and then a fortnightly reviewer of the Sunday puzzle. This week’s offering was another candidate for best puzzle of the week, containing the excellent clueing, trademark hidden words and a few d’oh moments too. My top favourites are marked in blue.
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