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Jack’s jolter 14/09/24
Been a while – sometimes there are other things to do at the weekend, such as https://standuptoracism.org.uk/ events. But my enormous readership of approximately 9 billion has begged me to…
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Picaroon’s posers
Today’s three toughest teasers from https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/29458 19d: Aussie native not feeling alright, not content (6) The answer is NUMBAT, which is an australian animal I had never heard of before.…
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paul’s painful puzzlers
A tricky one today at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/29452, but as ever, some are trickier than others, and here are the three that kept me puzzled the longest: 8ac: I see you getting…
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Today’s Three tortures
Writing up the whole thing is a time-drain I no longer want to endure on a Saturday, but what I can do for you (you lucky people) is show the…
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Holding Message
It takes so loooooooooooonnnnnngggg to do these posts, so, although I still do the prize crosswords and all the rest, I then prefer to just get on with other things…
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brockwell’s braincrusher 15th June
I was just too busy to write this post for last week’s Guardian Prize crossword, but let me know if you want any of its answers explained. This time around,…
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flying kite’s 1st june prize puzzle
Today’s headscratcher is this: https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/29398 1 across One providing protection asked flighty daughter to house piano (4,3) DESK PAD ‘deska’ is an anagram of ‘asked’ (asked flighty, as in, the…
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HECTENCE Quiptic 27/05/2024
Just doing this ‘quiptic’ to get another post out quickly – I made some changes to the site template, and I don’t think they get activated until I do another…
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everyman 27/05/2024
This one: https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4049 1 across: Is no longer interested in row, abandoned with gusto (8) OUTGROWS the letters of ‘row’, together with the letters of ‘gusto’, abandoned – i.e. messed…
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Paul’s may 25th jigsaw jaunt
Maybe I shouldn’t be doing this, but for my ‘first’ post (after calming down from a week of crazed bewilderment about WordPress navigation), I’m keen to do the Guardian prize…


