2207: An unusual angle
In six answers the wordplay ignores an item. These items (two of them identical) are not listed as specific 27…
To 2204: Security
Five perimeter entries, and 29 and 30, are types of BODYGUARD. First prize Amanda Spielman, London SW4 Runners-up Dr S.M.…
Cricket’s glorious dead
This year: Richard Attenborough, Clarissa Dickson Wright, and a late appearance for opening batsman Bobby Moore
Dear Mary
Plus: What to do when waiters call you ‘you guys’, and how to keep fellow students out of your beautiful room
Spill Bill?
The major problem facing the Labor party today is one of logistics: how do you get rid of a floundering…
Consider this…
Saving scientists, bureaucrats & the Great Barrier Reef Did you know that Christine Milne was Vice President of the International…
Australian diary
My bladder is still fighting the NSW State Election. It is 5am and for the past six weeks this has…
Australian notes
I have over the years passed up many an opportunity to hear Keysar Trad in the flesh. Publicist, poet, media…
Ends of the earth
This story, second in a projected series (the first was The Thief Fleet, reviewed in these pages 8 December 2012),…
Culture buff
A baroque music festival in Hobart sounded right with particularly appropriate settings such as the Theatre Royal and the pretty…
Bottom drawer
Professor Anne Twomey (‘Royal activism in the spider web of secrecy’, 4 April) argues that Prince Charles’s use of his…
By Air
Astonishing to think That not so long ago First the Brothers Wright Then Louis Blériot Initiated flight. And strapped into…
Words
Late afternoon I speak to Mum on the phone; she’s sorting through her past, four hundred or so odd-sized photographs.…
Møn
The sky over the island of Møn, which is at the bottom right of Denmark, was cobalt and the whitewashed…
Hit for six
The Hamilton Russell trophy for London clubs has been dominated in the past by the RAC. This year, though, they were…
