Can't get brain in gear today. I have entered a few answers and have a couple more waiting in the wings. Could someone please let me know at which of the first three squares across the answer to 1...
Many thanks for the poem "The old man's Autumn". I enjoyed reading it, although it may be too close for comfort for our poetry group, given that we are all of a certain age! Do you know who wrote it,...
Can anyone suggest any poems suitable to read aloud in a poetry group on this topic please? Nothing too long - I don't want to bore other members as I don't have a great speaking voice (unlike the one...
A friend has been suffering for about eight weeks now- she hasn't had it before and has previously been generally in good health. Now she cannot drive, can hardly sit down and finds it difficult to...
Yesterday I was searching google on my samsung galaxy tab s2 9.7 tablet and clicked on one of the results (I think it was the Cityglare site). The following page appeared: The page at ydlutkwiir.xyz...
Given that English language crossword puzzles have been around for about a century, I wonder how many of the newspaper ones are still compiled from scratch. I've noticed, with the few that I attempt,...
Hello, My old scales have expired and I must replace them. They were handy in that when not in use, the plastic bowl could be inverted to cover the weighing bit. I don't want any that need batteries...
16a. Very good booze barring one ultimately remaining this? S?b?r - sober I suppose but where does the barring one come into it? 19d. Worker mostly concealing second worker's failure. H?s. ?e?n - has...
Answering a recent post about feral cats has triggered a question that has long been in the back of my mind. I'm typing this with Charles (a beautiful black and white cat) sitting next to me - he came...
Hi, I'm trying to answer a question that is supposed to give a composer's surname - the clue is "Creates blue bliss without a " b"". Assuming an anagram and omitting one of the Bs I nearly get...
Hi. I bought a music CD from Amazon which had a free mp3 version with it via autorip. I bought the CD using my android tablet ( but also in the past, have made purchases from my Windows PC ). I'd like...
How do you cut and paste etc using an android machine? Only have a virtual keyboard and a stylus so how on earth does one manage to do MS things like cut and paste with only one free hand?...
13a. Branch scale not Celsius. (4). ?i?b. Limb fits the branch bit but not sure about the rest of the clue. The i depends on the pre-penultimate letter in: 7d. Getting close to burning with change of...
I do some part-time work for which I need to print out about 600 A4 sheets of good quality greyscale documents a year in addition to the covering letters to my clients etc in black ink. If you include...
Has anyone managed to complete it correctly yet? If you have, please let me know and I shall persevere (I've spent too much time going round in circles with it and wonder if there's an error in the...