Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, This took me longer than normal. How the 7 cells from 14 clashing answers were to be treated hit me with a glimmer rather than a blinding flash. How elegant that the...
Hello EV N&Cing Wine Clubbers, No need to resort to searching for Anniversaries for this EV, it was "hidden in clear view"! The setter, MrO, aka as Devadolly's nemesis, has constructed...
Hello Everyone, Well, unless I have been seriously misdirected, and for suren I wouldn't want to be on "tour" with the cartographer who put together the rubric! Especially as the quarters...
Hello everyone, As soon as I saw that a qoutation had to hilighted, and that the real name of the author, plus the work it comes from also had to be similarly shaded, I just knew this EV was one for...
Hello everyone, When I saw the grid and clue listing, and then read the rubric, (no clue numbers, grid numbers, superfluous words in clues deduction of an unclued entry and to cap it all squares to be...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, plus TTers, There shouldn't be anyone in the DC with this offering. Although one wonders if all these errant students will apply theirselves to best advantage!...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, If my memory serves me well, this theme appeared in The Speccie not too long ago, so the training was useful. The second, but unrelated theme added weight to the...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers (plus any TT contributors), Filled the grid quite quickly and have adapted the normally clued answers to give me 6 adjacent squares that represent the "where",...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, Took a little longer on this one this week, had never heard of the innovator, for a start, then some words not in my vocabulary and some juggling to comply with the...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, I was mortified when I read the rubric! A non-English quotation, plus my newly acquired 7th edition 0f ODQ not cited as containing it! Imagine my relief when I...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, A little more challenging this week. Populated the grid slowly, but steadily, then pored for ages trying to fathom the relevance of the extra letters, still not sure,...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, Once I'd got the quotation it all fell into place! A little more taxing than last week, but not too much! I was distracted for a while at 20ac, I thought the definition...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, Hope you have all been busy little ones doing this weeks EV. Hopefully not celebrating in the modern way indicated by 44 across, but rather by opening a bottle of...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers,
Another grim subject for EV, let's hope it doesn't occur in the future! Enough of that, it was quite doable this week without being tedious....
Hello EV N&Cing Wine Clubbers, Sorry, this late but was pre-occupied yesterday, a Beer festival in the village! It would have helped if I had read the rubric properly, especially the bit about the...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, Had a struggle getting into this one. Not many gift clues. But once the clashes were becoming apparent, they could be used to good effect. A good feeling on completing this...
Hello EV N&Cing Wine Clubbers, A little late than normal, the site has been rather slow, I did try posting earlier. I spent a while getting my "red hound" the Enigma, but the normal clues were...