3 comments on “Crossword Maestro on Countdown”

  1. paddymelon
    #1 - Fri 5th Jan 24, 04:57

    Thank you Admin. Can’t get Channel 4 here unfortunately, but from your tip-off landed on https://www.youtube.com/@CrackingTheCryptic which has been a bit of fun.
    Mark Goodliffe, Cryptics, and Sudoko, and all sorts of puzzles, both left brain and right brain, and a nice fella to boot. Impresssive.

  2. Mitz
    #2 - Fri 5th Jan 24, 14:55

    Well, that all got a bit tense for a moment!

  3. FrankieG
    #3 - Sun 7th Jan 24, 14:23

    Spoiler alert: he starts off badly with a word that oed.com insists has a hyphen, but its 3 most recent quotations (all over 50 years old) give the lie to:’
    1957 – “The most energetic dancer of her day, gyrating nightly at the Stork Club and other hangouts of the quality.” – New Yorker 5 October
    1960 – “Basement hangouts which have a vogue and then disappear.” – Guardian 9 November
    1968 – “It is 3 a.m. in a steam bath known as an after-midnight homosexual hangout.” – Globe & Mail Magazine (Toronto) 13 January’
    Nobody needs to actually watch Countdown any more – everything is recorded here, including words they all missed, like sedulity.

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