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This is BigMac returning with week three of the May MM Links. I start with a rant: John Terry did not play this week, just as he did not play a year ago. If he respected himself, let alone his...
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This is 'Big Mac' returning with week two of the May MM Links malarkey. We approach summer (seem to have by-passed spring) and colleagues talked longingly last week about getting the barbecues out at...
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This is BigMac here, with week one of the May MM Links mayhem. Older readers will remember my last series – where I mentioned my love of sport. So following the announcement on Tuesday of the...
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This is “BigMac”. First – an apology. My use of a proper name last week caused some anger / confusion. I apologise. In mitigation, the word ‘posh’ was used in my...
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So we come to Week Three and my thoughts turn, naturally, to the fantastic day of sport that awaits us. Subject to the weather (this is being written early on Thursday morning), day three of the...
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Last week’s intro was rather hurried and I promised gen2 that I’d try and do a little better this week. I wrote this during bank holiday Monday – May Day – whilst at work. In...
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Have posted this in fod and drink, but it's a real puzzle to me...>>> OK, love curry, have helped son cook one tonight. BUT how do you clean saucepans, plates etc that have turmeric stains?...
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OK, love curry, have helped son cook one tonight.
BUT how do you clean saucepans, plates etc that have turmeric stains?
Any advice / hints / suggestions gratefully received.
BigMac...
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Last one: Explosive device whose energy is provided by nuclear fission (1-4) ?B?M? Showing complete lack of scientific education/understanding, is this A-Bomb or H-Bomb? Or indeed, something else?...
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Tearing my hair out - any clues gratefully received... ...
29a Interview a capital divine (3,5)
S?E ?H?A?...
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Anyone else strugling with the grid this morning?
E.g. 32a is a light short, as is 13a.
BigMac...
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Been a sporadic (voyeuristic?) visitor over the past couple of years. Hope to be more regularly on parade in the future. Good wishes to all the regulars <i>Mine's still a Guinness, by the...
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4a Wrongdoing did seem bad and sinful originally (8) ???D?E?S 13a Head of department with drink - not last one - for entertainer (4,6) ?E?? ?A?T?N Been staring at them so long they are now swimming....
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Anyone else struggling with the grid? For example, 12a and 13a seem to elide, as do 26a and 29a... ... but then make 5d and 21d very dificult to complete.
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3d It goes (in both senses) with the job (4,5)
T?E?H?U?E
Tree house? If so, why?...
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Pulling my hair out!! Last one... ...
1a In all, wrong title making money - risk being often misquoted? (1, 6, 8)
A ?I?F?E ?E?R?I?G
Clues gratefully received...
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24d Peter, possibly, is back in No 10 (4) Assuming other answers are correct, I have ?s?r Looks like it can only be TSAR (which fits with Peter) but can anyone explain the clue, please?
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Well, this is the answer. More seriously, not just because it's the season of goodwill, I wanted to thank all contributors to AB (and especially the Q&P section) for unfailing support and help...
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Stuck on two, so help gratefully received. 26d Closely surround half navy (5, two words) ?ETI? 36d Plunge into sea on the Riviera with goddess (5) M?RG? (I want this last to be merge: mer = sea; g =...
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I ask as I think I've either a) been sent a free copy for which I will no doubt have to pay later or b) won a crossword competition... but I do not know which (or even when)...
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