This edition's puzzle is at http://www.alumni.cam...am65/CAM_65_LORES.pdf (on page 48). A cunning offering by Ifor (who also had a good puzzle in the Listener series in May 2011 and sets elsewhere...
Where is everybody? Posting somewhere else? What an intricate construction. I have been delighted by the subtlety of this and now have a full and functioning grid but I am wondering how it fulfilled...
Zany clues, almost laugh-a-minute stuff and a remarkable (and surprising) dénouement. Brought much needed mental warmth to the icy surroundings here. Terrific stuff, great fun and the best of...
Particularly baffling: I can get what are I am sure are the correct answers to 24 26 27a by elimination, ditto 3 7 and 22d, but no idea why. And is 6 a "How to work with the "foreign"...
a.k.a., "Look at ME!!!!" says the setter. One of the harder EVs of late, certainly harder than this week's Listener. i was unsure of the last part of the preamble till the very end, but sure...
Unless I've gone seriously wrong, this easier than it first appears, though I'm still not sure of 15d. The definition seems to be a bit stretched and it's a bit of an exception to one of the rules....
Hello, for anybody searching for this weeks EV, using the agreed entry, here is a link!
http://www.theanswerb.../Question1098501.html
Time for a slurp!...
Last puzzle of the year and it is Mango. 2008 was the last time we saw them with the excellent City Tour. This was not as good, but an enjoyable challenge. Shame the whole theme was got very early...
8d Rail travel impossible for boy like Joel? (4) N???
5d Little room on tyneside, saint of Artois (I've just arrived there? (8) ????O???
Many thanks...
So, no Friday finishes on this one. Me neither: perhaps I really am slipping. I'm really struggling to get enthused about this: it looks like a lot of cold solving and then a letters jigsaw. I don't...
Not much here to cause any grief this week, I think. Not too high on the difficulty scale, but enjoyable anyway. Now I have no excuses for the afternoon and will be forced to finally clean out my...
26d Upstarts in cooler with a group of animals F???A (5) 29a Purchase yearbook, say, every six months ?I?????L (8) and 27d Open United Nations party ???O (4) (nato?) - thanks
Can anyone help me? 1.d. a homemade Scottish firework. I have: P - O - 3.d. Deputy PM I have T - O - A - S (TWO.S)? 9.d. Includes Everton I have: T - R - E - S (THREE-S)? 38.d. I have N - T - E - O...