Life
2128: Carbon copy
This puzzle marks a 42/27 by 11 in 17/19. Five other unclued lights (one twice hyphened) together suggest another form…
Solution to 2125: Nil desperandum
The part quotation was ‘BUT WESTWARD, LOOK, THE LAND’ (1/5/28) from Say not the struggle naught availeth by Arthur Hugh Clough.…
Sorry, Rayhan Uddin, but your comprehensive didn’t teach you how to think
An acquaintance of mine called Daisy Christodoulou has just published a book called Seven Myths about Education. It’s a merciless…
The Battle for Britain – 31 August 2013
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Meet the real scourge of the English countryside
I’m off to Balcombe this weekend. In fact I might even carry a placard and paint my face with a…
Dear Mary
Q. Is there a polite way of halting a wannabe novelist from reading his oeuvre aloud to an unwilling audience?…
A dinner fit for a prime minister
It is impossible to think about any Italian region without wondering ‘What if?’ Sardinia lacks the glamour, grandeur and menace…
Vikings
‘What’s he saying now?’ asked my husband in a provoking manner when an actor read out a bit of the…
A dinner fit for a prime minister
It is impossible to think about any Italian region without wondering ‘What if?’ Sardinia lacks the glamour, grandeur and menace…
The turf
Driving to Newmarket through a biblical-style deluge that had sheep, cattle and horses queuing in twos in case Noah had…
Meet the real scourge of the English countryside
I’m off to Balcombe this weekend. In fact I might even carry a placard and paint my face with a…
High life
Just before I left Gstaad for the Greek islands I went to dinner at Eugenie Radziwill’s, whose other guests included…
Low life
Golly my testicles are shrinking fast. At this rate by Christmas they’ll be down to the size of garden peas.…
Real life
At last. I’ve waited a long time for this moment. I’ve been through years of torture at the hands of…
Long life
After a carefree month at my wife’s house in Tuscany — the longest summer holiday I have spent there for…
Wild life
Laikipia The bull elephant had roamed our northern marches of the Laikipia plateau for decades. I always recognised him…
Bridge
If jealousy is measured in twinges my twinge-o-meter has gone viral. On my self-imposed sabbatical, otherwise known as a holiday,…
Dortmund
Britain’s top grandmaster Mickey Adams has won clear first prize in the tournament at Dortmund, ahead of former world champion…
No. 280
White to play. This position is from Williams-Brown, British Championship, Torquay 2013. What is the most direct route to victory…
New word order
In Competition 2811 you were invited to take an existing word and alter it by a) adding a letter; b)…
2127: Dire straits
Each of twelve clues contains a superfluous word. 9 of these words are unclued lights, which are of a kind. …
In the end, everybody pays
Character is destiny, according to Heraclitus, and that becomes increasingly clear as you get older and chart the ups and…
Dave
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To 2124: Pack
Seven unclued lights are STUFFED ANIMALS (13 18) — i.e. deer, horse, anoa, cat, seal, tup and boar, filled with…
Teenage dreams
Were you still up, as they used to say about Portillo in the 1997 election, for Hedwall? It was well…
