Good morning and welcome to week four of the MM links competition. You have had my past history as a dentist but now I am a full-time botanist. As I said last weekend I was going to spend a few days...
Good morning everyone and welcome to Week [3] of the MM links to be set by your all powerful King Ulysses II. Last night, crofter declared that this will be the last MM Links for two weeks!
Good Morning and Welcome to Week 2 of the MM links as set by my good self, King Ulysses II. I do hope that you are all ready for this weekend’s challenge. I wonder if entrants will repeat the...
Good Morning and Welcome to another month of pitting your wits to predict MM Link Words. This will be my second reign and in the past I was dubbed by crofter as “King Ulysses the Valiant”....
Good Morning and Welcome to another month of pitting your wits to predict MM Link Words. This will be my second reign and in the past I was dubbed by crofter as “King Ulysses the Valiant”....
Try as I might I cannot get my head around the last clue : Setter finishes off puzzle book (4) ?E?K (N.B. The setter's name is Puck if that has any bearing on the matter). I have considered all of the...
Just to say that it is worthwhile sending in your entries. I am pleased to say that I came second in The Terrible Twos quiz (thanks gen2) and have just received a runner-up prize for last month's Saga...
It's not often that I have to ask for help but it's a short answered one that is throwing me at the moment ! 80. Dulcet voices sound better when 150 leave the group (4) It also seems that 46 about the...
I've been away for the weekend and have just returned to see that the Sunday Times was delivered instead of the Sunday Telegraph, which means that I am going to miss my weekly fix of the EV crossword....
Hello again everyone and welcome to the third week in the rule of King Ulysses the Valiant. "Yes!", I do have a devious mind; which is a product of solving cryptic crosswords for over 30 years now. I...
I am confused by an apparent non-word in the start of the instruction "shade -hume and initials....". The h is from (h)in(g)es = Ines u is from fe(u)d ; m is excess from germ = erg ; and the e from...
I've been away for the past couple of weekends but have managed to get the papers for my crossword fixes. I was late in looking at the latest ones but have been astounded to find that from last...
I'd forgotten about this crossword until the other day and am stuck on the final clue. Why is it always the small ones ? 22dn Game to raise a grand ? (4) _A_O I presume that this is one of the answers...
The site seems to be working OK at the moment, but for how long ?!? So I'll post this question whilst the going is good. Yet another clever EV puzzle. I have completed the grid and solved the missing...
Try as I might I cannot get my brain into gear for the last two ! I haven't seen either asked before. 21ac Trick ? This bridge hand might not make one (7) C???A?E 15dn Workers at it are constantly...
I have completed the grid (bar one letter -- the first to 42ac ?SSES, which I presume is Asses, but cannot derive it from the clue (with an extra word -- Judge having Alzheimer's lost seven gold...
I've just opened the crossword for today to see that I've won for last week's effort --- which wasn't easy either. That's the second time in as many months, so it can be done. I do the crossword for...
Possibly the quickest grid that I have ever completed for an EV, but have only one letter to place for the thematic words.....though I must admit that I haven't worked out the reasoning yet. of the...