Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating - Difficulty ** - Enjoyment ***
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Tuesday. Solid and straightforward puzzle today, as we've come to expect on this day of the week. Does anybody out there feel like over 12 months of COVID restrictions have distorted your sense of time? Sometimes I find myself pondering events that feel recent, only to realize that they happened well over a year ago. Weird. Continue reading "DT 29672"
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Greetings from Ottawa, where the lockdown is scheduled to end in a week and a half but every indication is that it will be further extended. Recently we have had a lot of cloudy weather and rain.… Continue reading
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New solvers have already met proXimal, the EV editor, in EV 1468 some months ago, and he sets some of the Toughies. You can be sure of a challenge but fair and carefully constructed clues too. Continue reading “EV 1486 (Hints)”
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A very good Sunday morning from Winnipeg where, as some thought, Lockdown 3.0 was not a strict enough response to Covid 3.0 (a.k.a. Third Wave), so we now have Lockdown 3.1, which is probably what its predecessor should have been in the first place. … Continue reading
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This post represents a major milestone in the history of Big Dave’s Crossword Blog as it is post number 10,000! BD
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Good morning from a woefully wet Warrington. Continue reading “DT 29670 (Hints)”
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
A thoroughly enjoyable crossword with a few tricky parsings, and a tribute in 23d. Continue reading “Toughie 2640”
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Good morning from South Staffs on a sunny May morning.
I found that a certain amount of lateral thinking was needed to get on our setter’s wavelength this morning.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on 1st May 2021
BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
A straightforward Prize Puzzle, Continue reading “DT 29664”