Where new ideas are tried out – only the brave enter into this domain
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Good Sunday morning (but not from Winnipeg) from Youngstown, Ohio. After four relaxing days with friends in Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario, I am finally completing my move from the USA to Canada by emptying out a storage locker in Delaware, and driving a rental box van (containing the contents of said locker) back to Winnipeg – a four day journey (26 hours total driving). … 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.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***/****
[I don’t know what’s happened to today’s Toughie blog or who’s meant to be providing it, but in the meantime I’m putting up this stub so that people can post comments and queries about it without using the back-page blog. Gazza]
Thank you to Gazza – what follows has been bashed out at speed and more than likely contains multiple errors but I’m working on the better something than nothing theory.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from a sunny South Staffs. Storm Doris has blown away, leaving us, fortunately, with just a couple of small branches to clear up: others in the region have been rather worse affected.
Giovanni’s unusual word count is back up this week, after a couple of more gentle offerings, but the wordplay should enable solvers to arrive at the answer.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on Saturday 18th February
BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
The recent improvement in Saturday Prize Puzzles was in evidence again last Saturday. Long may it continue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment ***/****
An interesting puzzle in which Excalibur displays her usual quirkiness. A slow start while I was getting on the right wavelength was followed by a steady solve of most of the puzzle. I was then held up in the SW corner and finally spent ages staring at 24 across trying to figure out how it worked.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on Sunday 12th February
BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
A rare thing – a Sunday puzzle with no *s by candidates for favouritism – I must have enjoyed it all equally Continue reading “ST 2886”
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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