Day: 30 August 2017

Financial Times 15,641 by DOGBERRY

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There were a couple of classical references in here that I did not understand.  Normally I manage to guess what to do from the rest of the clue but this time I needed Wikipedia to come to my aid.   History and Classics are not my strong point but I’m certainly not complaining as one of the things I enjoy about crosswords is learning all that new stuff along the way.  Thanks Dogberry.

The PDF version of this puzzle did not display correctly when I opened it on my PC.  The numbers in the grid were replaced with a seemingly random selection of symbols found on the top line of a keyboard: &, ( and * for example.  There is also a typo in 6 down dipomatically, I don’t know if this is related.

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Independent 9,635 by Dac

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One of Dac’s typically smoothly-constructed crosswords. The usual good clues and nothing to take any sort of exception to.  I found most of this quite easy and then came to a halt on the quartet of 1ac, 9ac, 1dn. 3dn, failing to see the equivalence of a card game to cards, expecting the church bell’s noise to be a ring, thinking the female would be either f or a girl’s name, and expecting a bit of dope to be d.

Definitions in maroon, underlined.

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YORK S&B weekend 27-29th October 2017 – Update

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A message from John Henderson:

Here’s my end-of-summer update and request for details, slightly different to last year, but easier for everyone, I hope! Even if you have indicated attendance/accommodation details in the spring announcement, please would you give your A-E details in a post hereinunder.

Edit 25/10/17: Details of the Friday night ‘ale trail’ can be found here (map) and here (text).

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