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Day: 30th June 2019

Monthly Club Special 20,225: Levi Stubbs’ Tears

Author   VerlainePosted on 30th June 2019 at 10:56 PM10 September 2025Categories Monthly Club Special

Crikey, is the year half over already? This was another quality MCS displaying the usual delight in the mad, bad and dangerous to define words bulking out our dictionaries, all clued with the usual precision … Read more “Monthly Club Special 20,225: Levi Stubbs’ Tears”

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Sunday Times 4856 by David McLean

Author   keriothePosted on 30th June 2019 at 1:00 AM10 September 2025Categories Weekend Cryptic

8:30. A nice easy one from Harry this week. Only one unknown (the garment), mostly pretty straightforward wordplay and only one query (at 20dn). Quite a lot of anagrams. Definitions are underlined, anagrams indicated like … Read more “Sunday Times 4856 by David McLean”

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Mephisto 3069 – Paul McKenna

Author   glhPosted on 30th June 2019 at 12:29 AM10 September 2025Categories Mephisto

I solved this one on an airplane between Washington Dulles and Los Angeles with an electronic copy of Chambers handy, and was glad for the distraction (for those curious, that flight is a Mephisto, an … Read more “Mephisto 3069 – Paul McKenna”

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