Sunday Herald Oz

[1ozzy]

Birds climbing to scrutinise trouble spots (9)

[Mamyalynne]

Nothing placed Oz?

[1ozzy]

Not yet Mamya, when I do I'll post what I have

Thanks

[Mamyalynne]

okay

[1ozzy]

With a tad of help from Chambers I now have

s?a?s?res

[cupid04]

scansores

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.freedictionary.org/?Query=scansores

[JJ109]

scan sores

[1ozzy]

You have all outperformed Word Wizard!!

Thanks and I hope 2017 is good to you all.

[1ozzy]

Just bumping you up Buenchicos' Honours List ;-)

[cupid04]

Thank you 1ozzy. I use crossword solver!

[1ozzy]

Me too, are you a member of the forum there?

[cupid04]

No, I just tell them how many letters and how many placed and let them get on with it, fair dinkum don't you think, lol!

[1ozzy]

Fair call.

Up early or been out partying?

[Buenchico]

This free dictionary program (rather than a website) has a superb 'wildcard' feature, that's excellent for filling in the missing letters of words:
http://www.sequencepublishing.com/1/thesage.html
It also offers definitions, synonyms, hypernym, hyponyms, antonyms and much more. It's what I use when compiling crosswords and I can highly recommend it for help with solving them!

[cupid04]

No, no partying. Went to church to see the new year in. The internet went down just before the bongs, but I saw the fireworks when it came back.

[cupid04]

Do you have bongs in Oz?

[1ozzy]

Looks interesting Chris, many thanks.
Reckon I'll give it a whirl, I don't compile but I do enter a few clue writing competitions occasionally.

[1ozzy]

We do!! but you can get arrested for owning one ;-)

[Buenchico]

Yes, do give it a try, 1ozzy. It's 100% free and a totally safe download. (Well, I've loaded it onto many computers over the years and none of them have blown up yet anyway!). I regard it as one of the best freebies (of any sort) on the web and I'm amazed that it's not better known!

[Buenchico]

In case Cupid04 is confused, I think our antipodean friend is referring to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bong ;-)

Australia can't have one 'national clock' to notify people of the start of a new year, simply because there are five different time zones!