23 down must be ANT as it appears in ???ant???, but why ? I can see the wordplay ANT(I) and that it's a social insect, but why only one in some Amazon societies ? The whole clue is as follows: Endless...
Full marks, Oyler! Sheer joy to have a numerical Listener with a theme. I never thought I would open the thread for a numerical. This will make our Listener year!
Yippee - great fun!...
I’m surprised that no one has yet commented on this first-class puzzle. Not the usual numerical but a thoroughly entertaining exercise in logic as well as plenty of clues to solve. Thank you, Ilver....
finally have a full grid with 4 blank cells, and the letters giving 'unexpected item' etc, any pointers as what to do now please.
either here or at [email protected]...
Is it ME? Usually have no problems getting the crossword printed - just click on crossword on the current month. When doing it this month I just get pages of info re the crossword. Anyone help please?...
This will make sense only to those who've done, are doing, this puzzle. I have completed the grid and thought I had got the theme -but the 'work' I've got in mind does not have the required number of...
I have been prescribed these this evening, we're going away early tomorrow so might not have chance to ring the doc.
Will I be ok taking these and Warfarin?...
Well I've completed the grid so have all eleven unclued answers . I get the three great fire of London associations but how the other five fit in I'm clueless, the preamble is gobbledegook. What is...
There was a businesswoman who had just made millions of dollars for an Arabian Oil Sheik. When she was leaving the Oil Sheik offered her diamonds and rubies and a silver-plated Rolls Royce, but she...
Hi Teenieleek Someone has asked me to email you. I can't remember if you're on the Spectator list that I send. If you are please email me and I'll forward it on to you. Don't worry it's something nice...
Oh my goodness. What an incredible feat from Radix. I have not been able to put this down since I got a foothold in - the construction, symmetry and elegance make the mind boggle. I am slightly...
A very enjoyable puzzle and thankfully not as daunting as it looks (much as Wagner, according to Mark Twain, is better than he sounds). I made either an inspired or lucky guess as to the nature of the...
Not a subject I know anything about (or want to) but Google to the rescue. On reading the preamble I felt a warm glow when I saw that highlighting was required this week. Not feeling so confident now...
Quite a doozy this week but very enjoyable. Not necessary, of course, but I made copious use of the LEN, MID and VLOOKUP functions in Excel to count string lengths, pick out the Nth letter of the...
I cannot find a thread for the puzzle so expect I will be redirected. I think I have this all completed although not 100% on the final step, so this needs a bit more thought. Spent ages on a huge...
I hope a Speccie fan can give me a bit of help on this . I've filled it all in,found the seven words which must be removed and filled in the only words which fit the unclued entries . I'm at a loss as...