A very happy Christmas - where are you all? This was an exciting grid fill with lots of alcohol and Christmas goodies and I am delighted, though reeling and rather bemused, about what we are required...
This week's offering is Metrical Variations by Hedge-sparrow. A typical offering such as we have come to expect from this setter. Some gentle clue and a nice theme. Sadly the final step took me longer...
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...
Good grief, where is everyone? This week's offering is by Phi, and, my word, I'm having a fair old struggle with it! Has anyone finished it yet?
Good luck everybody!
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Oh boy, just seen where this one is going. Very nearly finished, but I reckon there's going to be a fair bit of drawing to do, which can wait until tomorrow! Enjoyable diversion, without being too...
This week's offering is Whirly-Birly by Sabre. After a run of fairly straightforward puzzles, we have what at first glance looks like a typical Sabre offering - not an "unch" in sight. So,...
36a Customary practice (5) _ _ A _ E 44a Jeered (5) G _ _ _ D 80a Sanction (8) A _ C _ E _ _ _ 107d Region of high pressure (5) _ I _ _ E Thanks in advance.
Instructor with a beastly job. [6 & 7 letters] ?????? ????N?? Lock the barracks at which hand to hand fighting takes place. [5 & 8 letters] posibly CLOSE ???????? Copper stripper. [6 letters]
As I've been told yet again by the Answerbank that I have not been on line recently (wrong) I will start this thread! This week's offering is S by Hedge-sparrow.