Life
2601: Men of note
The unclued lights are of a kind. Two solutions are initials. Across 1 Officers’ training school – place to write…
Drama in Astana
As I write, six of 14 games of the world championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren have been…
The turf
When jockey Derek Fox came over from Ireland to join the Scottish stable run by Lucinda Russell and her partner,…
Low life
It took five firemen or pompiers to lift me out of bed, carry me down three narrow flights of stairs…
High life
New York The fact that a sailor on leave cannot whistle at a pretty girl’s legs is scientific proof that…
Aussie life
After that tweet by Mark Latham, thousands of column words, outraged tweets and statements by MPs quickly followed. I can’t…
Language
This year is the centenary of Vegemite. The classic Australian spread first hit the shelves of local grocery stores in…
Court with appeal
The Sessions Arts Club is a restaurant inside the Old Session House in Clerkenwell, a pale George III building where…
Bad behaviour
It would take a brave man to pick a fight with Roy Keane, and nobody could quarrel with his view…
Solution to 2597: A Couple
The couple were VICTORIA (23, 36, 37, 45) and ALBERT (2, 9, 17, 20, 46). 7 was the link. First…
2600: Pulling power
The unclued entries share a definition. Elsewhere, ignore an accent. Across 1 Chap primarily revered among classic characters (5) 12 Barrow…
How to mobilise the police
I wasn’t surprised to hear that six police officers raided a pub in Essex after a customer complained about the…
Chess pie
Chess pie was, in one sense, new to me when I started learning about it a few months ago. I’d…
Vegetarian
In Competition No. 3294, you were invited to provide the first 16 lines of an ode to a turnip or…
Wild life
On the lengthy train ride to Kyiv I read my Plokhy as we trundled through seas of mud, passing villages…
