Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating - Difficulty ** - Enjoyment ****
Hello, everyone. I romped through the top half of today's puzzle and then came to a screeching halt in the bottom half. My 2* difficulty rating is the average of 1* for the top and 3* for the bottom. It's a well-crafted puzzle with quite a few smiles raised during the enjoyable solve. There's also a food theme running through it. I wonder if that has any significance? Continue reading "DT 29648"
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where we have recently enjoyed a nice run of summer-like weather but are now back to more seasonable conditions with April showers in the cards for the next week.… Continue reading
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Gaston is a familiar name to EV solvers and needs no introduction.
Preamble: Eight suitably positioned and thematically connected elements are hidden in the completed grid . Five of these are of a kind and should be coloured appropriately (35 cells).… Continue reading
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where we are about to ‘catch up’ (I use the term loosely) with our neighbouring Provinces and enter a Third Wave of Covid partly because of Canada’s pitiful vaccination rate – as of yesterday, Canada is 35th, compared to the UK’s 7th, in the ‘league table’ of vaccination rates by country. … Continue reading
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Welcome to another chilly Saturday in Crosswordland – I’ve two thoughts on who set this Prize Puzzle so I’ll be interested to see if one of them turns up to claim responsibility. I’m a last minute stand-in for the hard-working Tilsit and have to have lunch quite promptly today as Mr CS has his second jab this afternoon. This means that I’ve not been able to add illustrations to these quickly bashed out hints (which may please some more than others). Continue reading “DT 29646 (Hints)”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
A good challenge From Elgar with plenty of entry points and a few laughs
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Across
1a Overthrow personal challenge that’s put forward (4,4)
BEAR DOWN: A 3-letter word meaning personal, with a word meaning to challenge or to oppose resolutely coming first (that’s put forward)
5a The collective IQ’s not high, for starters (3,3)
DIM SUM: Read differently, the answer could be a stupid total
10a The cut does individually supply a fair return?… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs on a drizzly Friday.
For me, this was easier than some recent Friday puzzles, once the penny had dropped on some of the quirkier clues.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on 3rd April 2021
BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Saturday Prize Puzzles don’t get much more straightforward than this one from Chalicea Continue reading “DT 29640”