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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
Hello everyone, with love on this feast day. Kitties love a feast, but though we are usually separated by a mere ocean, today we find the Earth’s core itself between us. Through the wonders of technology, however, we have been able to bring you this blog, created by joining together hints from each of us. … Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good Morning from the heart of Downtown LI where life is getting back to normal after the great party that followed England’s comfortable win against Wales on Saturday.
Today once again Rufus delights us with his brand of cryptic kidology. I didn’t find any hold-ups and nor should you.… Continue reading
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Good Sunday morning from Winnipeg. Having sunk well into the deep freeze in the middle of the week just gone by with more snow, and highs around -20C (-30C with wind chill), 10C below seasonal normal (whatever that means), we are supposed to reach a balmy -2C today (8C above seasonal normal). … Continue reading
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, an assortment of clues, including some of the more difficult ones, have been selected and hints provided for them. I’ll try to add some pictures later [now added BD], but it’s a busy day at BD Towers as it is Mrs BD’s birthday.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ***** – Enjoyment *****
Today we have Elgar’s toughie number 115 and accordingly the puzzle contains a number of related connections, as with his last four puzzles here. I found this difficult but immensely satisfying, and I enjoyed unravelling the theme. With cleverly hidden definitions and plenty of devious wordplay, there were excellent penny-drop moments.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs on a cold, grey day.
I fairly rattled through today’s Giovanni, with nothing causing any hold-up.
In the hints below, the definitions are underlined. The answers are hidden under the ‘Click here!’ buttons, so don’t click if you don’t want to see them.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on Saturday 4th February
BD Rating – Difficulty * – Enjoyment ***
A pangram this week, with double unches and cryptic definitions galore – this was a slightly different Saturday puzzle to the ‘norm’ but it still didn’t take long to solve, and the clues were very ‘blogger friendly’ when it came to typing out the explanations, even allowing for a couple of quibbles, one considered quite major by the commenters on the day!
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