Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, The grid was fairly quickly populated, although it took a bit longer to sort out the 2 extra letters in some of the across clues. It didn't help that I'd assumed some...
Hello EV N&Cers and Wine Clubbers, Not too many "gifts" to get started this week, so I was a little down in the mouth! I didn't get the relevance of the quote until I looked in ODQ!
Hello N&Cing EVers, Found the quote quite quickly, but it took a while to realise how to apply it. Have yet to relate that to the title! Thoughts?!? Was it significant that the 2 surnames in EV 862...
Apologies to any EVers who were mislead by my previous posy under EV 860, try looking at http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puz zles/Crosswords/Question750050.html
Hello EV N&Cing Wine Clubbers, That was somewhat more challenging. A few words I'd never heard of didn't help! After I'd spotted a possibility in the perimeter it all fell into place. Pleased to see...
Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers My first reaction when looking at the grid was to think "impossible". But the clues were mainly gifts and using "copy", "cut" and "paste" as suggested in the superfluous...
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...
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.
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...