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Windows Error

Early this week some painters came round to do some work on repainting the door, window frames etc. What a lovely bright white colour they now are! Unfortunately all the windows are now permanently...
10:07 Fri 22nd Aug 20144 answers, last by mushroom25 16:52 Fri 22nd Aug 2014
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Ev - Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1135 - The Seminal Moment By Gaston

Gaston's second visit to EV shores with a celebration of a seminal moment I really enjoyed. Credit to him too for ensuring that the various elements of the theme are in pretty much the correct...
10:44 Sun 10th Aug 20149 answers, last by Christiana 13:09 Tue 12th Aug 2014
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At Last Some Good From The United Nations...

I received an email from the UN only this morning. Apparently the Secretary General is angry about the amount of people who are victims of internet scams. As someone on the list of victims, I'm...
09:50 Thu 31st Jul 201416 answers, last by sunny-dave 11:22 Thu 31st Jul 2014
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1133 -- Peripheral Consequence By Jaques

It wasn't too hard to work out the thematic entry method of the various clues, but it was certainly very tough to piece it all together and work out what was going on. In the end I spotted what was to...
22:58 Mon 28th Jul 20141 answer, last by EV_Solver 07:49 Tue 29th Jul 2014
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1132 -- Another Game By Artix

I think I would have found this impossible without managing to have a lucky guess about who players 1 and 2 are, followed by another lucky guess about where the various empty squares should be. Both...
19:09 Sun 20th Jul 201418 answers, last by crosswhit99 23:55 Wed 06th Aug 2014
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1131 -- The Journey South By Gila

Quite a tough puzzle I think, especially in the top half of the grid where I still have the odd gap, but the rest of it's come together nicely to reveal one of my favourite themes.Well actually I'm...
13:47 Sun 13th Jul 201416 answers, last by devadolly 10:54 Sun 20th Jul 2014
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1128 - Unknown Destination

What a weird theme! Still, nothing like a thematic puzzle to introduce us to the weird and wonderful, so thanks for just that MynoT. I'm missing 26ac so not quite completed yet, and for that matter I...
23:20 Mon 23rd Jun 20142 answers, last by Cagey 04:30 Sun 06th Jul 2014
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1127 - Nightmare By Eclogue

Two setters, if memory serves, which explains the preamble "have had"! I found this rather complicated by having heard neither of the unclued 6dn (at least, not in this context) nor of the fitting...
14:38 Sun 15th Jun 20147 answers, last by jim360 23:17 Mon 23rd Jun 2014
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I Think This Spamming Of Cb To Earn Badges...

... is just ridiculous.
15:15 Fri 13th Jun 201419 answers, last by jim360 10:31 Sat 14th Jun 2014
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Drama At Canada In Formula One

The most exciting race of the season by far. Mercedes lose their lockout of 1st and 2nd, Hamilton has to retire after both of them suffer some mechanical problem, some massive crashes and plenty of...
21:05 Sun 08th Jun 201415 answers, last by Bazile 12:34 Mon 09th Jun 2014
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Selfies Infect Animal Kingdom -- Latest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-27624575...
10:39 Fri 30th May 20142 answers, last by marval 13:39 Fri 30th May 2014
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A New Cat-Egory Of Art?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27507950...
13:14 Tue 27th May 201411 answers, last by Peaspeculiars 18:09 Tue 27th May 2014
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1124 -- Hard Graft By Chalicea

A welcome return to solvable EVs again! Chalicea is good at packing thematic stuff into her grids, isn't she? I count at least 54 cells (maybe more) that are thematically linked, spread all over the...
13:17 Sun 25th May 20149 answers, last by Christiana 22:59 Tue 27th May 2014
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1123 -- Untitled By Samuel

I've been defeated by the EV for a couple of weeks running so it was nice to get back on track this time round. I do like it when a thematic idea is applied to all clues/ answers, especially if...
12:54 Sun 18th May 20147 answers, last by Christiana 22:07 Fri 23rd May 2014
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Ev - Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1120 - Curious Cocktail By Rustic

Any, with that, we say a final farewell to Rustic's crosswords. This one had a clever idea applied perhaps as much as is possible in a grid this size. I only finally twigged the idea when I'd tried...
14:57 Sun 27th Apr 20145 answers, last by DocHH 18:14 Sun 27th Apr 2014
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Gas/ Lecky Bills

Been at parents' home for Easter. Came back to a bunch of post including some more spam from Virgin Media (no I'm fine thanks, I don't want a TiVo really), but also my first ever Gas and Electricity...
21:54 Fri 25th Apr 20147 answers, last by Old_Geezer 22:05 Fri 25th Apr 2014
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Fao Scooping

Created this post so that you can ask any questions you like. Hopefully I'll be able to answer them to your satisfaction, and if not then there are plenty of other people on this site who might be...
12:38 Thu 24th Apr 201417 answers, last by solvitquick 10:37 Sun 27th Apr 2014
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Easter Weekend With The Family

Back home for Easter and a few days either side, which is a nice way for a break. My Great Aunt came along too. It's been lovely to see her in the past but lately I think she's been pulling the martyr...
21:14 Sun 20th Apr 201445 answers, last by anneasquith 22:51 Sun 20th Apr 2014
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La.te.x On Answerbank

I just want to test something. $x=\frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4 a c}}{2a}$ If this works then a nice neat equation should appear. But if not, I was wondering how easy it is, or not, to implement some...
11:35 Fri 11th Apr 20144 answers, last by jim360 12:22 Mon 12th May 2014
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Ev: Sunday Telegraph Enigmatic Variations 1116 -- Morphed By Shark

Perhaps a bit easier than it looked (though in fairness whenever Shark is the setter I anticipate a seriously tough challenge!), but still a very lovely piece of work by Shark, and a delightful -- and...
16:29 Sun 30th Mar 20149 answers, last by British_Olympics 07:33 Wed 16th Apr 2014

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