From BBC news: Police swan find hits wrong note A classic Scottish news story. Some ‘jobsworth’ has decided to investigate the Master of Queen’s Music’s possession of a swan carcass (now, try to dissect the nouns in that one). Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has been warned by the police that regardless of the fact that […]
This week’s fave clue from the Guardian’s Quiptic Crossword (No. 278 set by Moley): Issue on the Web in fourteen lines (6) Highlight to see answer: sonnet
Number of anagrams in this week’s Guardian Quiptic crossword (No. 277, Don Putnam): 6 (+1 that was part anagram, part sandwich). Different setters seem to like various combinations of clue-types. While it’s very satisfying to get an anagram, I sometimes feel a little cheated if it’s gotten too easily. Or really frustrated if I just […]
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