A sharp intake of breath preceded the whitening of the knuckles, as I gripped the arms of my chair in sheer trepidation at seeing the name of the setter today. And so it happened, the tussle with my nemesis Gaff. And at the end of it all, I can (barely) stand up and aver that I fought like a man, relentless in the face of a barrage of one inscrutable clue after another.
Day: 15 August 2014
Guardian 26,339 / Paul
I’m going to repeat what I said in the preamble to my last blog of a Paul puzzle, a couple of weeks ago – that it was a bit of a mixture, with … Read more >>
Independent 8685 / Phi
Thanks Phi for our usual Phi-day phun! The enumeration helped enormously for 1/4/7/13/18. Mind you, whenever we see TAR in a crossword we always think of SAILOR – so that helped … Read more >>