Sunday Times

[Quizmonster]

This is not a question...I just thought some regulars in this category might be interested in knowing that I took delivery this norning of my Bloomsbury English Dictionary, having won The Sunday Times crossword a week or two ago. So, that's The Times, The Sunday Times and the Observer's Azed sorted, after only four decades of entering...just the Mephisto to go now!
Looks like an interesting acquisition, which is part encyclop�dia/part Dictionary. Cheers

[rogerr]

Well done! Great to hear of someone winning.
Regards
R

[earthakitten]

Well done Quizmonster, good for you. xx

[Quizmonkey]

You mean you've never won the Listener?!

[rogerr]

No, perhaps that is because I have never done it.
R

[crofter]

It's becoming a welcome pattern!

Quizmonster, janeevans, earthakitten, sniffa ... May I add that I was joint winner (with another ABer) in the latest Matlock Quiz and, although I regularly score 100% in the Rainbow Quiz, I have yet to emulate sniffa.

Excellent news QM!

[kayakamina]

Congratulations QM 1. I have been doing the Times, Guardian,
Sunday Times and Observer for slightly longer than you (two decades longer in fact) and my record of success is 10 wins overall. I'll keep on trying though!
Well done again K

[Quizmonster]

Thank you all for your kind comments.
(I wonder, Rogerr, whether you misread Quizmonster for Quizmonkey in the third response above.)
As it happens, QM2, I do sometimes send in the Listener, but not nearly often enough even to contemplate winning by the famous "law of averages".

[rogerr]

Yes I did misread it. Glad you pointed that out because I thought it was a strange reply to me congratulating you.
Regards
R

[shaneystar2]

Very well done QM....Nice to hear of a win.
I won a bottle of really nice brandy on a crossword recently ....unfortunately I have nothing left to show for it !!
Happy Puzzling .

[Dustybun]

Congratulations Quizmonster on your win and thank you for sharing the news with us. Made me feel a lot brighter today - and less likely to give up!!!

[Quizmonster]

Do you really mean it, K, when you say you've been doing the more demanding crosswords for six decades? I had you down as 'mature', but never considered you might be in your eighties! I claimed four decades, as I started on them in my early twenties and am now in my late sixties. Another three years or so and I'll have completed my half-century of such solving. Sending answer-grids in has cost me vastly more than I have ever won, of course!

My thanks for the further pleasant words and, of course, congratulations to those of you who have also had nice wins recently.

[geo0939]

Congratuations, Quizmonster. I assume it was the Mephisto that you won. My most recent was the Saturday Times �20 book token, still, it got me Will Self's latest novel, which I shall read sometime.
It's the occasional win that keeps you sending sending them in. (Sorry about the juvenile rhyme). I reckon I'm around your age (67) but never thought of myself as a new boy, having taken up crosswords in the early eighties. I think I enjoy it more as I get older, partly because of ABank. Again, well done.