to 2320: Crossings Out
When BRIDGE is added to the unclued Across lights and FORD to the unclued Down lights (including each of the…
America’s identity crisis
Long before student activists started talking about pulling down statues of Cecil Rhodes, a cultural war was being waged in…
Portrait of the week
Home Regulated rail fares will rise by 3.6 per cent in January, bringing the price of annual tickets from Oxford,…
Corbyn’s fallen idols
Jeremy Corbyn finally broke his silence on Venezuela this week, but in the manner of a man who has his…
Letters
Pastel atrocity Sir: I note that Professor Flint (‘Constitutional Notes’, 5 August) neglects to mention what is surely the strongest…
to 2319: poem III
The poem was Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’. The words from the poem are LEGS (16), TWO (17A), SANDS (26), NOTHING (37), KING…
Portrait of the week
Home British negotiators are prepared to pay up to £36 billion to the EU to settle the so-called divorce bill…
Barometer
Out with a whimper Usain Bolt managed only a bronze in his last appearance in the 100 metres at the…
Crunch time
For anyone considering a career in economic forecasting, the Bank of England’s inflation report for August 2007 ought to be…
Letters
No reason for subsidies Sir: For believers in free enterprise like me, it was hugely disappointing to read that Sir…
to 2318: Groundwork
SOIL (9) — cryptically indicated by ISLAND IN THE SUN (1A), the title of a SONG (40) recorded by HARRY…
Portrait of the week
Home Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, appeared to wrest control of plans for Brexit from cabinet rivals, while…
Playing chicken
Besides being important in themselves, the trade talks between Britain and the United States which began this week are symbolic…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, invited the media to take a photograph of her beginning a holiday with her…
Barometer
But me no butts Boris Johnson, being taught a Maori head-to-head greeting, joked that it might be ‘misinterpreted in a…
to 2317:370
The answer to the subtraction sum in the title is 1947. So all the unclued lights are celebrities who celebrate…
Letters
Bugs bite back Sir: Matthew Parris is quite right to say that we Leavers would prefer independence in reduced circumstances…
No. 2316: Divine alteration
Redundant words were 12A virgin, 16A crazy, 38A mammal, 18D state, 21D greed, 25D tendon, 34D extremist. These respectively defined…
Let May govern
It used to be said that loyalty was the Conservatives’ secret weapon. While other parties might descend into internecine warfare,…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, told MPs before the summer recess: ‘No backbiting, no carping. The choice is me…
Hope in Mosul
For the title of world’s most benighted city, Mosul takes some beating. Liberated from Saddam Hussein by US forces in…
to 2315: Trunk call
4, 40, 43, 1, 3, 16 and 17 were all examples of PORTMANTEAU words, into which are packed the sense…
Portrait of the week
Home In her first big speech since the general election, Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said: ‘I say to the…
Letters
Technical education Sir: I am grateful to Robert Tombs for highlighting the baleful use of ‘declinism’ as part of the…
