Monthly Archives: December 2011

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight on Sunday.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 Hold …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 One …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 8 Lighten …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 8 I …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 He …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight on Monday night..

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 Dash …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 Outstanding …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 8 It’s …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 8 Something …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 8 He’s …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 Two-cents …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight Sunday.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 Perhaps …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 Nip …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 It’s …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 8 Say …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 8 This …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 Get …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight, Sunday evening.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 It’s …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 Base …

How did you get on with today’s puzzle? Please feel free to leave a comment or question below. The explanations for today’s clues will appear on the blog at midnight tonight.

Please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have a question about today’s puzzle I am sure that I, or a fellow solver, can answer it for you. How did you fare with this crossword? Across 1 Dismal, …

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We come across another Roman emperor today, namely Nero, who ruled from 54 – 68 AD, and who was succeeded by Claudius. I recently watched the wonderful BBC drama “I, Claudius” made in the mid-seventies, and have reawakened an interest …

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For my birthday this year, my wife gave me a book of crosswords in Latin! I am afraid my knowledge of that language pretty much died soon after my Inter Cert many moons ago, so I won’t be doing those …

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The vast majority of contemporary clues are a melding of two definitions for the answer (one cryptic, one non-cryptic). But as I’ve said before, rules are meant to be broken, so sometimes we come across two cryptic definitions, something of …

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Usually to arrive at an answer using the cryptic definition, we have to put together little sections of the word piece-by-piece. Often those little sections are acronyms or abbreviations e.g. RAF, FF or even “EG”. Sometimes they are little words …

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There are many expressions that we hear that have their origins in the Bible. One such expression is “to sell your birthright for a mess of pottage”. This phrase is used to describe a situation where one takes a trivial …

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