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 communiqu̩. The bold-type printouts Рwith no name attached Рlurking 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 [...]
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. [...]
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 if [...]
Every year the Macquarie Dictionary opens its gates to let a new batch of marauding words into the Australian language. Not that you need a lexical OK for a word to exist, but it does make infomania and toad juice just a tad more official – and far more kosher to appear in a crossword [...]