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Saturday Independent Cryptic Prize Crossword 7920 by Nestor

16 Across Drops' ultimate arrangement, in short. (7) S-A-T-R...
20:42 Sat 03rd Mar 20124 answers, last by Cookiepuss 12:38 Sun 04th Mar 2012
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Times 25,101

24 Down GALL or GAUL?...
18:08 Sat 03rd Mar 201211 answers, last by RocW 11:27 Sun 04th Mar 2012
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St Mary's Church, Great Sankey, Warrington. Quiz. Things which can be worn.

All answers can be worn on head, feet or rest of body. Cryptic rules are only loosely observed. Thanks to all those who responded to my previous thread. We now have only these 3 left. 5. Walk around...
01:33 Thu 02nd Feb 20125 answers, last by turast 13:22 Thu 02nd Feb 2012
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St Mary's Church, Great Sankey, Warrington. Headwear, Footwear, Clothing quiz.

All answers can be worn on head, feet or rest of body. Cryptic rules are only loosely observed. 5. Walk around the place. (5) 13. Skater's sensation. (6) 24. Ca's footwear 32. Sounds like a lot extra....
20:37 Wed 01st Feb 20127 answers, last by turast 22:58 Wed 01st Feb 2012
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C J ELLIS of Rochester Kent

Has anyone else noticed the extraordinary success rate of this solver in winning prizes? I'm fairly sure that this week's runner-up in the Spectator must be about his/her 4th or 5th mention this year,...
23:55 Fri 07th Oct 20115 answers, last by caspersuzy 17:57 Mon 10th Oct 2011
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Apocalyptic painting on cover of Private Eye

Can anybody throw light on this painting? Who is it by? What is it called? Where can it be viewed? Current issue of Private Eye, 30th September to 13th of October front cover.
20:22 Sat 01st Oct 20118 answers, last by NiceCupOfTea 00:33 Mon 10th Oct 2011
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Saturday Independent Prize Crossword 7740 by Tyrus

TYRUS Please stop inflicting this tiresome propaganda on us (Message in 1Ac, 5Ac, 9Ac, 10Ac, 11Ac). Most lovers of the game couldn't stand the bullying, aggressive style of play and the...
02:48 Sun 07th Aug 20111 answer, last by cruciverbali 08:21 Sun 14th Aug 2011
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Guardian 25, 394

There's a definite error on the online version. 22Ac & 20Dn. The latter is a thematic answer (See 9Ac, 11Ac, 23Ac, 3Dn) 22Ac an Americanisme for toilet inside a 4 letter word for joints. 20Dn CORE...
09:22 Sat 06th Aug 20113 answers, last by turast 09:33 Sat 06th Aug 2011
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Answerbank crossword prize winner

Please don't send hate mail, but Sunday Telegraph "Enigmatic Variations 976", and Sunday Times "Mephisto 2656" prizes won in the same week is a bit rich even for me! Apologies to...
08:41 Sat 06th Aug 201119 answers, last by Aquagility 10:29 Fri 23rd Oct 2015
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Spectator 2024 Fab Therapy by Dumpynose

Could anybody out there enlighten me as to the significance of this title? The theme of the puzzle involved 9 unclued words which were synonyms of words which could be anagrams of a 6 letter word...
22:25 Fri 29th Jul 20113 answers, last by nilesquimby 22:55 Fri 29th Jul 2011
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D Day Anniversary

Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.
23:32 Sun 05th Jun 20111 answer, last by boxtops 23:33 Sun 05th Jun 2011
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The Guardian 25,262

The Online PDF gives the solution to clue A as 12 letters. (7,5). This is an error, as the solution has 7 letters. Very entetainig as usual with Araucaria's alphabetical jigsaws, and quite lenient and...
08:57 Sat 05th Mar 20111 answer, last by turast 09:00 Sat 05th Mar 2011
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The Cheating Game

Sorry, I don't know how to post a link, but there is a very interesting article at http://www.independen...nternet-cheating-game...
03:32 Wed 19th Jan 20113 answers, last by mazie 08:28 Wed 19th Jan 2011
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Saturday Independent "Inquisitor" and Spectator

I notice that Barry Roe of Wigston, Leicester has won the prize in both of these crosswords in the same week. Is this a record?
19:01 Sat 06th Nov 20102 answers, last by caspersuzy 19:28 Sat 06th Nov 2010

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