What 2007 film sounds like a word for travel beside one who’s traveling purposefully on foot? Coincidentally, the film’s hero seldom strays from his vehicle of choice. The complete title is (5,6) in length.
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BB59 SOLUTION: All eight are misnomers: a radiator relies on convection, Greenland is white, koalas aren’t bears, Oktoberfest opens in […]
To quote Shakespeare (or was it Homer?) – d’oh.
My efforts to unravel a Lear clue from this week’s Times crossword had me barking, like a dog of war, up the wrong tree.
For those new to Grid-gate, the clue read as follows:
Lines from Lear don’t show fate, sadly, protecting a king (3,5,2,4)
Sniffing anagram, […]
A quote, a quote, my kingdom for a King Lear quote.
Every day I unravel the Times crossword in The Australian, by and large filling the grid without too much apoplexy.
My personal best – cracking puzzles as they appear – is 76 in a row. The last word to trip me up is MUNRO BAGGER, […]
What connects a radiator, Greenland, koala bears, Oktoberfest, Bombay duck, Australian Womens Weekly, Ben Folds Five and Chinese checkers?
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BB158 SOLUTION: Committal and acquittal can accompany little, spittle, whittle, skittle and brittle.
Before I begin, a few vows:
I don’t have shares in harvest magazine.
I’m not dating a harvest editor.
Style plays 2nd fiddle after content.
And I’m sober, despite the launch’s booze.
That covers most bases. Just in case a skeptic reader sniffs any strategy behind the forthcoming gush. My tally of conflicting interests? Nil.
Because harvest is a hoedown, a […]
What two court terms rhyme with today’s rhyming answers?
Slight
Dribble
Pare
Pin
Weak
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BB157 SOLUTION: The key verbs are put, break, stand, settle, shake, back, dress and let.
Three months of evidence, 105 witnesses and over a million dollars of taxpayer kitty went into a Sydney drug trial – only to be aborted due to a puzzle.
Not a crossword in this case, but a rampant sudoku fetish among the twelve honest men and women. Every morning, a sort of test-within-a-test, a jury member […]
If arrive/duel = SHOW UP/SHOWDOWN, can you solve these other up/down pairs? Be warned, the sequence can just as easily be down/up.
snub/erect
divorce/collapse
resign/jilt
pay/marry maybe
agitate/scam
withdraw/support
glamorise/berate
ease/bummer
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BB156 SOLUTION: Take the Money and Run, Love and Death, Hannah and her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemanours, Shadows and Fog, Husbands and Wives (arguably twice!), Sweet and Lowdown, Melinda and Melinda. […]
When it comes to naming his movies, Woody Allen is enrapt in AND. Cinephiles will be able to name all eight titles entailing the conjunction. A silver-screen medal for naming six or more.
(Note: the word may appear in its own right, or within a longer word.)
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BB155 SOLUTION: Flood, picture, spring, brain, conference, […]