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EV 958

Hello EV N&C Wine Clubbers, This took me longer than normal. How the 7 cells from 14 clashing answers were to be treated hit me with a glimmer rather than a blinding flash. How elegant that the...

Pythia

Paying tax on an ISA?

I know that ISAs are a way to save tax-free, but don't you incur tax charges if you withdraw it? Various websites I've looked at seem to imply that. In which case, if you have to pay tax on it...

Georgia05

Daily Telegraph Toughie Thursday March 17th 2011

Americans go nuts for their old policy (11)

mollykins

I know UEA is quite a good uni and according to the guardian for the kind of thing I want to do it's one of the best, but do I just think it's better than it is because it's my nearest and so i hear...

dr b

EV 957 Products by Samuel

What a fun puzzle. The final step of turning the interim product into the final product made me laugh. Lots of thematic material and some well concealed misprints - bravo and huzzah!

wilstan22

dt 26493

7d Infers total used is incorrect (7) 14d Sally in deep trouble when turned out (8)...

dr b

EV 956 Ego Problem by Ifor

Very nice puzzle this week - some hard clues and a lot of thematic material crammed into this one. Lots of cold solving for starters, given that more than half the answers are altered in some way....

mollykins

whose got PhDs?

Who are the two ABers who voted on the EDs poll that they have PhDs?

bellabee

ev 955

i really enjoyed this one. it displays great skill in setting i think. just a pity the 5x5 was given away when it would have been an interesting challenge to find it unaided. the anagram is really...

AndrewG-S

Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 954 Sunday February 13th 2011

Fun this week. Thankfully got Brewers for Christmas which made much easier.

Mary-Christmas

Maturing endowment policies

Years ago it was sensible to hang on to endowment policies because of the terminal bonuses. I have one maturing in Jul 2012 and two in Nov 2013. Would it be worth cashing them in now and paying off...

DocHH

EV 953 Anniversary by Oxymoron

Hello EV N&Cing Wine Clubbers, No need to resort to searching for Anniversaries for this EV, it was "hidden in clear view"! The setter, MrO, aka as Devadolly's nemesis, has constructed...

milly143

Accountant hasn't done wages

Every month I send of the times sheets to the accountant who prepares the pay slips and then sends them to me so I can set up the payments on the bank account. I sent them to him yesterday and...

GKW

Telegraph Toughie 503

20ac Dubious place for cranky old boiler with no current _ _ _D_ _ _O 27ac Being tight, hiccupping, I start to sing soprano in gents _ _ _ _ _I_ _ _ _ 17dn Look round special space at college and...

dr b

EV 952: Time to Wrap Up

L'threadstarter, c'est moi. I thought this was nicely done, with some harder clues than in past weeks. My only quibble is that the "sixth line" is not exactly accurately...

AndrewG-S

Enigmatic Variations 951

Finding this one tough going. Amendments to the clue entries makes this virtually a cold-solve in many respects. I am down to the last 5 clues, but have been stuck for a while. I guess the lack of...