Back to plain vanilla here after Verlaine’s lavishly illustrated tales from Shakespeare last week. It was a relief to learn from the Club Forum that others found this tough. It was a whiplash-inducing mix of … Read more “TLS Crossword 1123 by Broteas – April 29, 2016”
Day: 19th May 2016
Quick cryptic No 573 by Teazel
This took me 13 minutes, three more than my target, for no easily accountable reason. There are a couple of pieces of Brit-centric general knowledge (10 and 23 across, 20 down) and more than the … Read more “Quick cryptic No 573 by Teazel”
Times 26416. When is an orange not a paper-pusher?
Solving time : 8:23, so either this one was on the beginner’s slopes, or I was really on the setter’s wavelength, or both. It didn’t hurt that I’d seen almost the exact same clue that … Read more “Times 26416. When is an orange not a paper-pusher?”