I have a garden thronged with the usual finches, tits et al. There is also a pleasant cacophony of songs. How can i learn which song goes with which bird? The books seem to think everyone can...
No - I haven't quite finished it yet. Still, one of the joys of a Listener comes when you learn something new, and primitive triangles are new to me. I assume that the numbers in the threes are also...
I am running Firefox under XP, with Norton 360. All automatically updated. Firefox is just getting slower and slower to start up, today taking 24 minutes from click to show. Task Manager shows it...
I have only just printed this off, and I am sure that it is going to be satisfying. But what do people think about having a whole puzzle set to one sort of clue? No apparent wordplay or logic. Any PDM...
Well, thank goodness we have a long weekend. I think I might need that to work out what the blazes the clues mean! I had one theory, but the rubric that all entries are different turned me towards a...
Hoorah - numbers. Again one must marvel at the construction. There are some fairly obvious approaches, but I have not ventured into the hinterland much. I do hope the required clues give a...
No - i haven't finished it, so get up off the floor. I just wondered what people approaching it thought of the bit in the preamble "so solvers must deduce how many complete cells each answer...
The phrase "dry fire" refers to firing a gun without ammunition. Why is it "dry" and is there an equivalent for firing with ammunition - "wet" perhaps?
Still no link, of course. But another that relies heavily on cold solving. And a lovely nod for the Classicists amongst us in the use of "boustrophedon". I suspect more such will...
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/art s_and_entertainment/games_and_puzzles/article5 561552.ece Phew - I thought this might have got lost in the Times upgrade
