Just to update you on events for next week.

The venue for the meet Bramsche Bar is now booked and tables reserved.  The new menus should be on the website  (http://www.bramsche.co.uk/) and they are looking forward to meeting everyone.  We’ll be there from about 11:30.   There’s an interesting Wetherspoons called The White Hart just around the corner if you are early, or you could take in the Market or some of the other sights.  energetic people may wish to go and climb Stoodley Pike, or stroll along the canal.

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Thanks to Gurney for this enjoyable puzzle.  I have the impression this was a tad harder than usual, but totally enjoyable with some clever misdirections.  Apologies for the later timing.  Definitions are underlined in the clues.  The pictures at the bottom each has a link to the crossword; some, not all, of the links are shared.

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The pleasure and challenge of blogging an Anax had not fallen to me in a good long while, so I was excited this morning when I first set eyes on the grid. However, I was also a tad apprehensive since I am away from home at the moment, with less time and fewer works of reference at hand than would normally be the case.

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Quite a gentle walk this morning through Gordius’s garden with a couple of unfamiliar words (but compensated by very gettable clueing).

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