Mark Goodliffe – twelve times Times Crossword champion – is set to become a Countdown Octochamp on today’s episode of Countdown on Channel 4 at 2.10pm.
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Mark Goodliffe – twelve times Times Crossword champion – is set to become a Countdown Octochamp on today’s episode of Countdown on Channel 4 at 2.10pm.
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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.
Well, that all got a bit tense for a moment!
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.