Hello EV Wine Clubbers, Struggled with this for a while, but have populated the grid. All entries fully justified, although I had a bit of a problem with the definition of 41a, until I read "Our...
Hello EV Wine Clubbers, Jaques had me "doubting" for a while if I'd complete EV 856! After the initial quest for gifts, and no chance of even starting to populate the grid, I resolved the last clue of...
Hello EV N&Cers, My first pass through this one for the gifts from Salamanca, saw me with a sparsely populated grid. Gobi desert sprang to mind, but having resolved the 4 perimeter answers, things...
Hello EV N&Cers, Populated the grid quite quickly, but did not locate the three proverbial recommendations in such a rapid manner. Would have been quite elegant if the 3 had appeared in the form of...
Hello everyone - as usual, am supposed to be doing something else, but as test cake now in the oven thought I would see if the N & C had begun...................No? Well it has now! Haven't had a...
Another fairly straightforward EV this week. Populated the clued lights quite quickly, but probably spent a similar amount of time on the 2 sets of unclued lights! Ended up working backwards,...
Relatively straightforward again, but took a while to spot the elegance/relevance of the letters bracketting 36a. But it would have been even smarter if 36a had been a down entry.
Good Morning everyone - Yes I know it is the crack of dawn, and No, I am not usually so sad as to be clattering away without the day being aired, but something has to be changed PDQ! However, am away...
Where is everyone? I have only just got round to opening my EV for this week (just don't ask.......) and to my horror I saw it was my nemesis, Mr O. Promptly had palpitations and had to have a...
Have populated the grid, think I have identified the 36 clues that have redundant letters, but not all the letters. Those identified in clue order plus the gaps make little or no sense, so cannot make...
After last weeks elusive resolution of the relevance of the title, this week's one, athough obscure was much more obvious. Populated the grid quite quickly, but took a while to hunt down everything...
Happy New Year "EV"ers! Have noticed the 15/1/09 deadline and 3 week winner publication date!! Despite that I'll still not be sending in a completed grid. It didn't take long to populate the grid with...
I was away for most of November and I have come back to find (sadly) the EV chatter seems to have disappeared. What has happened? Has it been banned or can everyone (apart from me) get it all finished...
Is anyone else struggling with this? I have a couple of down clues left, and was hoping that the thematic non-words would give me a helping hand, but I can't figure out what they are - and so far I...
Is there a thread this week? If so, I haven't been able to find it and am very stuck on 12 a and 14a and would welcome any help. Both are thematic and my thinking is too woolly to cope.