4 September 2024 | Newsletters, September 2024
By Mark Taylor Across 1 Not right, desiring bard over novel, but it’s not the whole story (8,7) 9 Amperage jolted leeching energy to storm (7) 10 Spoil 1 down: clue better endings for Boatman (7) 11 Softly at home and secure (3) 12 Band set as 10 punishing beats...
4 September 2024 | Newsletters, September 2024
Across: 1. abridged version, 9. rampage, 10. mariner, 11. pin, 12. bastinadoes, 13. love affair, 15. isle, 18. sunk, 20. siamese cat, 23. micromanage, 25. sea, 26. dongles, 27. guiding, 28. cross-fertilised Down: 1. acropolis, 2. Romanov, 3. dead-beat, 4. evens,...
7 August 2024 | August 2024, Newsletters
By Jane Fitzpatrick Across 8 Spy high place that can be made a mountain, proverbially (4,4) 9 Bold zebra ran amok before sudden end (6) 10 One pass, one failure in period for hunting (4,6) 11 Identification with extremes of Orwell produces graven image (4) 12 It can...
7 August 2024 | August 2024, Newsletters
Across: 8 Mole hill, 9 Brazen, 10 Open season, 11 Idol, 12 Pigsty, 14 On and off, 15 Ignored, 17 Atrophy, 19 Cheerful, 20 Emerge, 21 Scar, 22 Square root, 24 Merino, 25 Twigging. Down: 1 No spring chicken, 2 Bean, 3 Timely, 4 Blossom, 5 Abundant, 6 Palindrome, 7 Get...
8 May 2024 | May 2024, Newsletters
By Mark Taylor Across1 I’m back into tortured prose, so only paid sometimes! (7)5 In Dunedin, crisp found in epic ‘hip’ pie (7)9 Admit it, in looking back, that pun won’t do (3,2)10 Sounds humorous? (5,4)11 Hacked Algiers URL to find resistance...