Where new ideas are tried out – only the brave enter into this domain
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** / *** – Enjoyment *** / ****
Greetings from Ottawa where we are experiencing a spell of unseasonably warm weather. It feels more like the end of March than mid-February. I understand that temperatures are actually forecast to reach virtually unheard of double digits in the next few days.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
What a delight to get another delightful posthumous puzzle from the much-missed Petitjean. Let’s hope that he’s left us several more.
Please leave a comment telling us how you fared with the puzzle and what you thought of it.
Across Clues
1a Leak to be fixed in vessel (8)
KEELBOAT – an anagram (fixed) of LEAK TO BE gives us a type of yacht with a heavy bottom to offset the weight of its sails.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***– Enjoyment ****
Kia ora from Aotearoa and a special greeting with all our best wishes to the birthday boy.
At last we have the chance to be really positive about our summer weather. We are now getting warm sunny days with temperatures in the mid to high 20’s.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***/**** – Enjoyment ***
Welcome, friends. Tuesday has come again, and so so have I. I found the NE corner no trouble, but had to beaver away a bit, especially in the south, to get some of the rest. It didn’t help that, becoming hopelessly entangled in the long anagram, I took ages to see 22/23a, which finally came all in a rush. … Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Hello again from Enzed, and welcome to another enjoyable offering from one of our Tuesday setters. I’m back to blogging solo this week, but fans of Kitty should not fret because you will find the other half of the KitKat over on today’s Toughie blog.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment *** [allocated by BD, not Miffypops]
As you may well be aware MPs creator Dick Bruna passed away on the 16th February. Your poorly schooled orphan boy is so overcome by grief that he needed help to produce these hints and tips.… Continue reading
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Good Sunday morning from Winnipeg. The winter festival is underway, but unseasonably warm temperatures, 10 degrees above normal, are restricting some of the events and everything is starting to melt.
The training wheels have been taken off and thrown into the nearest snow drift (before it melts)!
Another very typical and very enjoyable Sunday puzzle from Virgilius which I was able to complete at a fast canter, but there was some head scratching to understand the parsing of some of the answers before I could write the hints.… Continue reading
Update 11:00 am
Normal servie now appears to be resumed. The Prize crossword will now close at midnight tonight. If you are still having access problems please let me know via a comment on this post.
The CrypticCrosswords.net website is currently unavailable. While this is being investigated I have decided to extend the deadline for the February Prize Puzzle. This will also mean that the review will not be available until after the new deadline, which will be announced when normal service has been resumed.
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