Phew!
I found this one a brute after a run of fairly easy EVs.
Had to stretch the mind back half a century to my classics days and I hope it came easier for other EVers....
I do not now have a copy of this crossword but I did finish it and send it in. There was one clue, about halfway down the grid, I cannot now remember it word for word. It would have been an anagram...
For his final week, Strix maintained a more or less gentle standard for his last set of link words, namely: Oil SLICK GREASE Paint FIELD Fare STAIR Well Scoring proved quite brisk ~ particularly...
Good morning everyone - here we are at the end of the month, and a month where Kate has had us on the ropes just a bit. Scoring was hard to come by up until last week and then the flood gates opened,...
"What will happen next week is anyone’s guess." crofter wrote in last weeks results. Well, my friends, we are into the last week of this month and as some of you are (stop whinging)...
This will be the final week of our Triple Crown MM Links Champion (Strix) with no fewer than 14 weekly challenges under his belt in relatively short time. Whenever he has been asked to step into the...
For this, his penultimate week, Strix held to his promise to an extent by relaxing on the obscurity of some of his link words. Judge for yourself as I now disclose his links for Week 4 as follows:...
Oh my goodness - what is that Chinese proverb - be careful what you wish for ??? Well, it arrived, in spades, this morning !!! What I thought was going to be another of Kate's 'tricky' weeks turned...
I apologise if I seem, unintentionally, to have been rather mean last week for using words that did not easily give you all points. This week I will endeavour to redress the balance (maybe!). So let...
Good morning everyone - Here with another weekend of fun and frivolity !! and this month is fairly tearing past. And once again, I think Kate is trying us out [maybe she's in contact with Strix !!...
i appear to be stuck...! wouldnt mind some help to get me going again... 18d, What ignorant person doesn't have, note, in exam (8) -A-N---T and 41d, Firm with simpler arrangement for assembly workers...
When I first lived in Soho at the beginning of the 70’s I was being paid rather well and being surrounded by restaurants of many countries it seemed stupid to cook for myself. There was every...
Good morning all - good heavens, it's week 3 already !!! another one flying by and quite a number of us have yet to get our running shoes on and collect some points. And while I think of it - December...