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2474: Love me do
31 3 worked for the 43 of 21. The 43 of 34 got him for 24 35 and sent him…
Between the lines
In Competition No. 3165 you were invited to supply a job reference for a well-known public figure, past or present,…
High life
Gstaad It snowed on the last two days of August up here, and why not? We’ve traded freedom of speech…
Puzzle no. 621
Black to play. Rios–Adams, Online Olympiad, August 2020. The White king is running short of squares. Which move did Adams…
Internet trouble
It was as baffling to me as quantum entanglement. Every time the Algerian player on the Zoom call shared his…
Solution to 2471: Inky
The unclued lights can be preceded by BLACK. First prize Stephanie Reeve, Papworth Everard, CambridgeRunners-up Hilda Ball, Belfast; Peter Chapman,…
Aussie Life
Peter Scammell There is no doubt that the corona virus pandemic is changing the way we live and think about…
Bridge
A major pandemic has been sweeping through the bridge world since the game went online — and it’s called cheating.…
Low life
In France I own a dented old Mercedes and in England a dented old Mitsubishi Carina. The Mercedes is parked…
The turf
We all have weeks when every win bet finishes second and every each-way comes home in fourth. You begin to…
2473: May
The unclued lights (two of two words) are of a kind. Across 12 To make sense of Sun puzzle, many…
Puzzle no. 620
White to play. Zaibi–Napoleao, Online Olympiad, August 2020. White has just sacrificed the rook on a1. He concluded the attack…
Cento
In Competition No. 3164 you were invited to submit a poem in which each line comes from a different well-known…
High life
Gstaad I experienced my first Zoom conference last week, and didn’t think much of it. As the great Yogi Berra…
Real life
Always the National Trust sticker. It feels like every time a car parks across the gateway to my horses’ field…
Solution to 2470: Express route
The unclued lights are places served by the Norwegian HURTIGRUTEN ferries from Bergen to Kirkenes. Tromsø (at 4D) overruns into…
Act of God
Man plans, God laughs. Fide, the international federation, organised an Online Olympiad, with 163 teams taking part. We got a…
Remote workers of the world, unite!
A few nights ago on Twitter, I quipped that I was planning to launch a trade union for remote workers.…
Dear Mary
Q. Some friends persist on displaying our email addresses in large address lists when sending out round robins to all…
The best leader we never had
I spent Monday afternoon with The Wake Up Call, a new book by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge that lambasts…
Right up my alley
I suspect, though this may be romanticising, that if a French lorry driver with hitherto suppressed culinary tastes won France’s…
Scots
A teenager in North Carolina has been revealed as the creator of a fifth or even a half of the…
The Battle for Britain
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Aussie Life & Language
Tina Faulk There are very few ‘happy ending’ stories in the cruel history of slavery. This may just be one…
