Apparently having books in the background is good A dictionary they said - get a dictionary on your shelf. Shame she only heard the first syllable ... https://tinyurl.com/y3s94gdr [ caution - naughty...
Jesus wept ...
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/jn-investigation-for-months-theyve-broken-every-rule-in-the-book/?fbclid=IwAR1iSQzPqGoZYiEmnob2wd_gNJrJHXwaEFZyIuwo6KUH3D-nJtySEsMSLB4...
Worth reading all of this, rather than the garbled headlines produced by sundry scientifically-illiterate journalists. It really is a very encouraging report :...
No question - just a Listener style commendation for an excellent puzzle by Ifor (one of my favourite setters). Took a good bit of clue parsing to get the quotation and the instruction absolutely...
An excellent (and far from easy) puzzle - even after spotting the theme it was tricky to find the correct entries which needed adjustment. Some nice clues too - with very tricky parsing to be done to...
A great crossword - every bit as good as this week's (excellent) Listener. But did anyone else notice that the clue/answer to 8D was rendered incorrect on the very day that the crossword was published...
... not. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jan/02/tottenham-condemn-three-players-for-christmas-party-covid-rules-breach Yet another example of the "rigorous discipline" that is making it...
A well judged puzzle for this weekend, I thought. Hard enough to satisfy the regulars (with plenty of thematics too) but accessible enough for anyone who fancies a go at something new over the...
Excellent puzzle - not the hardest, but some nice clues and (for once) a very fair endgame with no gridstaring.
Thanks KevGar - I look forward to your puzzles and this was a good one....
We've just finished this quiz : http://www.kinoultonquiz.co.uk/ and have enjoyed it enormously - often frustratingly (deliberately) cryptic and sometimes bedevilled by updates to street view since the...
No - really ....
https://www.irishpost.com/news/adolf-hitler-wins-election-in-namibia-87-years-after-his-nazi-namesake-rose-to-power-in-germany-199207...
Now this will be interesting : https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-george-russell-to-replace-hamilton-at-mercedes-for-sakhir-grand.5vMOKRppSzFMz7RZzdzmxs.html Russell has "outperformed...
I wrote this for my family zoom quiz last night - and thought I'd post it here for anyone who fancies a go ... Double Bubble : All answers are a single word with a repeated letter somewhere in it –...
F1 qualifying - Istanbul GP Possibly the most entertaining/frightening quali session for a very long while - add together brand new tarmac, plenty of rain and 1000hp engines - then chuck in some quite...
It's been a while since I asked ... ... but what's tickling your tonsils tonight? Chez SD we are having free-range chicken leftovers in a spicy butter sauce - with a few chopped leeks and scallions...
... a view from an expatriate living in Ireland. I haven't posted much about Covid recently - I have no desire either to get in an argument with any individual or even just exchange fire from...