Where new ideas are tried out – only the brave enter into this domain
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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
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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 *****
A brilliant puzzle from Elkamere which didn’t seem overly difficult except for, well, a few difficulties experienced by each of us. We both made generally smooth progress but Dutch was somehow slowed down in NE and should have seen 8d much earlier. Meanwhile, Kitty found a few sticky spots at the end, and managed to have trouble parsing a couple of the clues.… Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
Good morning from South Staffs where after some brightness yesterday the relentless gloom of this winter has returned. At one stage yesterday it looked as though I might have difficulty posting this set of hints, but – fingers crossed – it seems that BD and Cloudflare have fought off the barbarians again.… Continue reading
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This puzzle was published on Saturday 11th February
BD Rating – Difficulty */** – Enjoyment ***
Saturday Prize Puzzles aren’t quite what they used to be – they certainly take a smidgeon more teasing out, although there’s always room for an ‘old friend’ – this week’s ‘pal’ being 26a. Brian asked the other day that bloggers explain double definition clues, so I’ve done what he requested, and I hope it helps, particularly as we had several this Saturday.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***/****
Due to a number of email problems this review will be a little late today. A few days ago I lifted the attack status from the website. Today the attacks restarted, so we are back “under attack” which means the firewall with its five-second delay is also back. … Continue reading
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Morning all and welcome to a non-RayT Thursday. Nothing in this one to frighten any horses but there is plenty to entertain them. There seem to be a lot of clues requiring insertions and several are indicated in the same way which is my only criticism of an otherwise splendid puzzle.
Continue reading “DT 28352”