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Just like to say thanks and well done to Gnomey and Sue who regularly write the reviews for the prize weekend crosswords, well done you two
What an exciting day, a new blogger, now who will it be??? Is it external maybe? andddddd will we reach 5,000,000??? and at what time My guess is around 6.30 ish, hopefully the blog will be up before I have to leave for art at 11.30 if not see you all later
Good luck and welcome to the new blogger
ps enjoyed todays puzzle
Hooray the banner’s gone
Not on Firefox it hasn’t!
Not on Google Chrome either!
I don’t want to sound churlish but are we not having a toughie review today?
It’s on its way – ask here if you have any urgent queries.
May I ask if I am correct in my interpretation of a clue in a DT puzzle?
Rash to show up giving support to king in ancient city (9)
I have (R) for king, UTICA for the city,followed by a reversal of a 3-letter synonym for ‘to show’.
It’s a prize puzzle for this week, so I have not typed the full answer.
It works for me (as long as it’s a Down clue).
Thanks Gazza – yes, it’s a Down clue.
Not the ancient city I would expect to see in a DT cryptic.
That was my take on it Jezza. Agree a bit of an obscure old city!
R inserted in UTICA followed bty the reversal of ‘show’.
I quite like these online prize puzzles. Not usually too hard but nearly always with one obscure clue – that was today’s (both the rash and the old city took me to Wiki)! I’d volunteer to do a review of them each week but pommette would kill me (hope she doesn’t read this!).
I’ve just had a look at the puzzle, intrigued by Jezza’s clue. As you say, Pommers, all very straightforward except for the one clue. I wonder who sets them.
No idea who the setter is and I think it changes because there are some distinct stypes which show up every now and then. I’ve been doing them for about 9 months now as they come out on Monday’s when there’s no Toughie. Gives me something to do over breakfast (along with the Grauniad Quiptic) as the normal DT back pager has to wait until lunch to share with pommette. As I said, they’re always fairly benign, as this one, but usually with a little sting in the tail! Bit of fun anyway and you never know – you might win £50!
Sorry, meant styles not stypes but you’ve probably worked that out – see other comment about 3/4 size keyboards etc!
Am I cracking up or was there a comment from CS here a FEW MINUTEAS AGO?
No I was cracking up so I took it away again!
Ah, you have more power than me! I can only do that on blogs I’ve authored!
Sorry about the Caps in that comment! I’ll never ever get used to the 3/4 size netbook keyboard which don’t work well with short fat hairy fingers!
Splutter, splutter!!!! collapses in a heap
Hang on tight, help will soon be at hand!
glad about that not doing too well !!
Welcome to the blog Melodie
Last comment then will wait patiently, honest, surely 9a, is a no no! The object of a crossword, surely is to put letters in the squares not numbers!!!
I’ve already published the acrosses! The number is inserted as a Roman numeral.