Well folks, I never dreamt that one day I'd be sitting here as Link Word setter for a whole month. It's a beautiful morning! Too nice for May - I would almost compare it to a Summer's Day! But how...
Did you spot the "quote" from the sonnet "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"? The third line is "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May" This leads to the title: "DARLING BUDS OF MAY" I...
Thank you kettledrum for the message yesterday, but I only received my copy of The Spectator an hour ago. I've opened up the page to discover that I've won first prize (again -- look who's boasting...
Tomorrow starts a new month of Link Competitions with a new setter in burgess (aka Alan). Now's a good time to START Linking ~ or licking your wounds and starting AFRESH! Alan has done his part to...
Hi All, I wish all the great brains around here would take a step back. I'm NOT talking about the wonderful cryptic puzzles in all our papers, but the smaller quizzes that the world and his wife can...
Can anyone help with this: Having a propensity for tilting at windmills. There are 8 letters and I've got 'Q?I?R?I? The only word I can come up with is Quit-rent which would mean the last I is wrong...
forgive me for being thick but i can't seem to get my head round these, "gran is 26 years older than mum, and mum is 26 years older than tom, if tom is 15, how old is gran ?" number represented by the...
I was bored driving to work today and I came up with the above as another way to give the name of a certain famous person. If that makes sense to anyone, would they like to hazard a guess who that...
Can anyone help I am still stuck on these 5 questions 1 Change one letter from pig cultivated land. 2 Flow with crowd together in it but no e. 3 Side of building of no importance. 4 not shoe sole. 5...
have only bought this till friday for meal tokens and am being seduced by xword! 13aauthorise list and prepare to wash up 5,3,5 18a reprimand mistake for every item of footwear 6,7 6d poet goes off...