Just posted a new pop-psych piece – Beauty Bias – under the Freelance heading on your right. The article deals with the idea that blondes have more fun, more pay, more leeway, and better prospects, presuming the blonde is 9 or 10 on the bombshell scale.
Boys or girls, brunette or bald, so long as you [...]
Here’s a rave of mine that recently ran in Vic Writer – the monthly magazine issued by the local Scribe Council, all about the myths and remedies of Writers Block:
Editors at Vic Writer asked me to kick around the idea of Writer’s Block for the issue in your hand. Ensure, they said I tackle two [...]
Answers to the last set of Cool Clues: Atone, idea, verb, doth, limo, capo, shoot par
Next week I’ll be kicking off a fresh theme. Till then, Cassowarians.
Their answers may be short, but their solving time may be lengthy. Good luck. This is the Cool Clue finale.
Square things A _ _ N _
It may come to a head (Ben Tausig) _ _ _ A
Publish or perish (Ben again) _ _ [...]
An especially twisted set of samples this time, all culled from the finest setters in the US of A:
Word for losers _ _ T E
Merger agreement _ _ O
First offer _ _ I N
Caesarean section _ I C _
Notable letter writer [...]
If you don’t know the drill by now, scroll down to the earlier posts. Then scroll back and knock off this bunch.
Focus group E _ _ S
Class struggle _ E S _
Make out (Manny Nosowsky) S _ _ _ _ [...]
How’s your solving record looking? Try this new bunch to flex the cortex.
Time and time again (BE Quigley) _ _ _ C _
Due to a higher power _ _ _ O
Talk up P _ A _
Turner on TV (Ben Tausig) K [...]
Appetite whetted? Here’s a fresh batch of cute clues, culled from many New York Times and New York Post puzzles, as well as other sources. You may have noticed from the last lot of clues that neither word lengths nor phrases divisions are specified, unlike most Oz crosswords. Just one more curveball from the land [...]
For the last two years I’ve become an American junkie. Instead of blow, snow, speed, meanies or ludes, I’ve been freebasing on American quick crosswords.
Well, an Australian solver might label them as Quick – to set them apart from Cryptic – but a decent US Quick surely ain’t. For starters, outsider solvers have to hurdle [...]