To 2253: Your starter for ten
FIRST, the ‘starter’ solution at 10 Down, can be linked with the other unclued lights, with it also appearing twice…
My confession: I began dodging tax aged eight
From bob-a-job with the Cubs to selling contraband smokes at school, I was a Tory wrong ‘un from the start
Well done Danny, but Jordan will come back
Well here’s a thing: we’ve just had the first English bloke to win the Masters. Sure, an Englishman has won…
Walk the plank
It’s sad to say but the Royal Australian Navy is fast becoming a joke, if it isn’t there already. The…
Brown study
As you know, I have always been at the forefront of the fight against discrimination, especially the evil variety that…
Diary
On arrival in Sydney for a stint with the Centre for Independent Studies, I am ensconced in the bourgeois bohemia…
Del-Conmania
Have you got what it takes to join the latest ‘irrelevant’ conservative political group?
Sachin Joab in STC’s Disgraced
Our grandmothers told that we shouldn’t discuss politics or religion in polite society. Apparently that was not a lesson learned…
Australian notes
Del-Cons? Or Hon-Cons? When the conspirators met to approve of Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten knifing their respective leaders, did…
Australian letters
Burger kings Sir: It’s a truth universally acknowledged that no two countries with Macca’s outlets have ever declared war on…
Tarot reading
It’s 8.57 on a Friday evening and I’m at home, waiting for an obscure American radio talk show to come…
666
The year 2016 is the anniversary of a number of significant events in the chess world. In 1946 Alexander Alekhine…
Puzzle no. 404
Black to play. This is a position from Carbone–Slipak, Mar del Plata 2016. How can Black conclude? Answers to me…
Mismatch
In Competition No. 2943 you were invited to submit a review of a well-known work of literature that has been…
Dear Mary
Q. I have a daily problem with knickers. I am size eight so not obese, but I find the sort…
