Cassowary Crossing

Those word-wheels spinning freely in your skull now? Try this next half-dozen anagram clues - among the hand-picked humdingers of 2007. Longer answers, sneakier signposts: these will take a tad more musing.
1) Dramatist or thespian, as in play (12) A _ _ _ T _ _ […]

Across most of January, word freaks can celebrate my pick of the 2007 cryptics. First we start with the so-called simplest version of the artform - the anagram. See how many you can unravel. Answers to follow in the next upload.
1) Owner’s new sink (6) _ O […]

A wheezy fan was never enough to keep my home office cool, so I decided 3 weeks beside the ocean is the only cure.
That’s why the blog will run puzzle fare for most of January: the usual dose of weekly Bird Brains, plus the crème de la crème of cryptic clues culled across last year’s […]