This might seem ( well,tbh, it is) an odd question. Does anyone know how many people enter the cryptic jumbo competition? I was thinking that the prizes would be great for HisNibs ( well maybe not the...
Hello. What a miserable day this has turned out to be. The temperature has dropped a lot! And this has led to SWMBO putting me backing the LJs (Andy Pandys) which I thought I'd escaped from. I know...
Hello. The sun has gone in so time to seek clarification. I hope you have all had as good a time over Easter as I have. SWMBO has been brilliant. She entertained (with support from His Nibs and me)...
hello. What a fantastic day. Holiday. No game. Beautiful weather. SWMBO and His Nibs enjoying themselves gardening. Me, a man of leisure, doing the Crossie, enjoying the delights of their labour and...
Hello. First, a word of thanks to SWMBO. A few weeks ago I moaned because she made me wear Long Johns (Andy Pandys, as I called them. ) I was embarrassed, to say the least but she was relentless. And...
Hello again. I am back after a couple of weeks' absence. A little tension between His Nibs and me. He said that I cared more about the crossword than him . I had to prove that wasn't the case and I...
Hello I hope you have all been having the weather we had today. Warm(ash) and sunny. His Nibs and I went to the park and then to the woods. It's been wonderful. I am so lucky, aren't I? Three queries...
Here we are on Monday already. I wasn't able to start it on Saturday and, when I did , I nearly gave up because I made so little progress. And then! Big breakthrough when I got "worst case scenario"....
Hello. Again a bit late. Went to see His Nibs play yesterday. He, of course, was fantastic!. (oh, a nd SWMBO released me eventually, from my Andy Pandies because the weather had improved. So,...
Hello again. A bit later than usual. After last weekend's depression because His Nibs and his mother were looking at unis in Yorkshire and my realisation that we would be spending a lot of time apart,...
Feeling a bit low. His Nibs's mother has taken him to Yorkshire (Good Thing!) to look at York and Leeds as potential unis to go to. It's not so much that I have desperately missed him this week end -...
hello again. I'm back Actually, the one that really bugged me, I have managed to work out (Ziggy Stardust). But there are others that I need help with please 30d Restless energy in reverse kicking...
Hello .I have found this a real stinker! I am just in from Mass and it will soon be bath time so I'll have to leave my queries until tomorrow (hopefully). I think the answers I have are OK but with...
SWMBO has just shown me an obituary (not my rush to reading usually) in today's Times of a man called Roy Dean. I expect you will all have heard of him. Not least because he holds the record for the...
Hello. It's just taken me about a quarter hour to undo a mess in the top right corner where I'd got one wrong answer and others followed. But now all is hunky dory. Well, no, it's not. There's one...
Hello again. I found this one pretty tough and, although I have (provisional ) answers for several, I am not really sure about them. Although I have other things to tell you, I'd better get on with...
Hello. I have nearly finished it. In fact I have answers for all the clues but there's a couple I don't really understand why. 16 ac. "press function that's very crowded" "squeeze " fits and meets the...
Could someone please help me. I have discovered tumblr but I have a problem. When I open it, along with photos I really enjoy looking at, huge (and I mean huge!) numbers come up that I have no...
So near and yet so far. So frustrating!!! Just two four letter words (and in each case I have two of them!) but I simply cannot think of the answer. Please help. 12d. rank particularly cherished by...