This is 'Big Mac' returning with week two of the May MM Links malarkey. We approach summer (seem to have by-passed spring) and colleagues talked longingly last week about getting the barbecues out at...
Good morning everyone - from crazy down under !! It's May ... well we know that, but I'm wearing Tshirts and cool things, and there's a bushfire raging in the Adelaide Hills .... go figure !! And...
I didn’t see this puzzle first time around so it was a pleasure to solve it now. It was very gentle without clue gimmicks and set no doubt as an introduction for solvers not used to barred puzzles....
This is BigMac here, with week one of the May MM Links mayhem. Older readers will remember my last series – where I mentioned my love of sport. So following the announcement on Tuesday of the...
Good morning everyone - still getting my head around the time difference now the clocks have done their little dance - I forget I have to post in the middle of the afternoon. Four nice links for us...
Of course, typically I didn't pay attention to the "use a pencil" instruction, but then I won't submit anyway so no big deal. A pleasant puzzle, with one or two ambiguities in the extra letters for...
Spring, at last, seems to have sprung. Our snowdrops having been in flower for what seems like forever have packed it in. Daffodils, at long last, are out. There is, in the Strix garden, an invasion...
Good morning everyone - very mild and windy here, but more rain on its way .... Well it's that time of the year !! Four links with plenty of options today, so thinking caps on for the final round -...
Much like last week, a perfectly fine puzzle with no end game to speak of; what to do was readily apparent so it was just a matter of identifying the nature of each clue. Still, many good clues that...
This puzzle is a mixture of cryptic, straight and general knowledge.
7d Daisy wheels (6) t?n?e?
I wondered if it could be tenter as in tenter hooks, but couldn't see enough of a connection...
Good morning everyone - Winter has arrived here when we were least expecting it, well not too bad, but a bit of a shock after lovely sunny Autumn ... to think I was out in the paddocks Wednesday while...
More than five generations of Mrs Strix family have bred, trained and competed on horses. From earliest youth they all have had close relationships with their horses. This means they are closely in...
No, I haven't finished it (some chance!) and won't, in fact, be able to look properly at it until this afternoon. But a quick glance over breakfast showed a bad typo in the example Playfair codesquare...
A fine puzzle though I would have liked more of an endgame. The method of entering the thematic answers is pretty easily deduced, and the revelation of the quote elicits an "ah" as you see how it...
Oh dear, I seem, last weekend, to have left you somewhat in the dark as to what my links might be. I will try to be less abstruse this time. As I said a week ago, I am an architect. I was lucky enough...
Good morning everyone - still getting used to clocks going forward and back, so this could be posted at any time. Thanks again to the stalwarts for manning the life boat whilst I was away, and now...
This was a new month and a new setter. Did you forgot that and think it was just an ordinary player setting the links? Oh no. April's links are being set by a Strix, 'Strix the Dilettante' to be...
substance derived from the beans of a tropical evergreen tree related to cotton and okra the nickname of jazz musician edward kennedy ellington uk prime minister from 1970-74 programme of events in...
