What seven-letter verb starts with a shampoo brand and ends with a reversed aftershave?
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB172 SOLUTION: Nagoya, de la Hoya, Sawyer, Goya, La Toya, destroyer, Moya, coir, Boyer, foyer, lawyer
I’M NOT YOUR MUMMA SO CLEAN YOUR OWN MESS!!!!
WHOEVER STOLE MY YOGURT – YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
WOULD JESUS LEAVE HIS BIKE HERE???
You know the kind of notes I mean. The furious Post-Its. The fridge communiqué. The bold-type printouts – with no name attached – lurking in your letterbox, telling you to wash your car, […]
Now and then, making puzzles, I flummox myself.
Typically this happens when I return to a stash of older puzzles, their answers lost or adrift in the scrimmage – and I can’t solve them!
Here on this blog, back in November, I ran a mystery list of words, beseeching passersby for the hidden link. That same list […]
What Japanese city, Latino boxer, literary rascal, deaf painter, musical Jackson, potent warship, Latino tennis star, mat material, lecture sponsor, hotel space and Kennedy vocation all rhyme with each other?
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB171 SOLUTION: Violence, restful, funeral, enormity, inroads, honorees, antagonist, saintliness, adultery, commendation
Here’s a bookworm confessional I wrote for the Victorian Writers Centre last month. Surely I’m not alone in this perversion?!
We are what we read, or so I read somewhere. Not sure where. I’ll need to check my booklist. Because privately, persistently, I’ve kept a tally on every book I’ve read – from AA Milne to […]
Four clues, all drawn from this year’s Times crossword, as published in The Australian, and none makes much sense to this game hack – even accompanied by the next day’s solution.
Mind you, after so many moons of solving and compiling, I managed to wing each answer in real-time, using the cross-letters to complete the grid. […]
“Now the onus is on Henman to come out firing at Ivanisevic, the wild card who has torn through the event on a wave of emotion…”
This mangled metaphor dribbled from Neil Harman’s pen in 2001, appearing in the UK’s Sunday Telegraph. Writer Clive James, citing the crud in The Monthly, awarded the wankery the Most […]
You try fitting 16 weird words into one semi-sensible gallery review, that rhymes and explicates en route. No picnic, I promise.
(For new browsers, take a peek at the vocab quiz a few posts ago - and this ditty might add up, slightly. Coming soon, half-a-dozen cryptic clues that remain cryptic, even with their answers attached. […]
Antigrams are contrary anagrams. UNITE, for instance, hides UNTIE. While FORTY-FIVE hides OVER FIFTY.
This week you have ten more to unravel. (And feel free to zap along any of your own original suggestions too. These can get addictive.) With the answer’s initial supplied, can you figure out the words that inspired each antigram here?
NICE LOVE […]
Quick vocab test.
Hooked as I am to solving and making crosswords, I’m prone to stumbling on words that leave me blank.
Inro, say, is a nest of Japanese boxes, popular for holding tobacco or ink or private seals. Netsuke, I knew. Ikebana? No brainer. But inro was a dunno.
So with inro as your intro, see […]