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Todays cryptic seems to have disappeared? Anyone found it???
No….. but I’m stuck on 21d and 23a……
And my avatar seems to have disappeared…
21d, you need the crossword abbreviation (one letter) for old, followed by a three letter word for a cad then the two letter abbreviation for ordinary rank soldiers giving you a word for someone who makes speeches and thereby stirs people into action
Thanks Mary, I’d worked out how to construct the answer, but for some reason couldn’t get the word for “cad” until you pointed out the answer is a “someone who makes speeches.”
23a is possibly a double definition, there was a lot of discussion on this on the blog this morning
possibly once again the main definition is’ an undesired effect’, think of what soldiers returning to duty with thier guns are doing
sorry should be their guns!
Thanks Mary, but I really just couldn’t get this, even with all the letters in AND your help.
As I have already said in another place, I couldn’t solve it therefore i don’t like it!
It was probably my explanation!!
oh, look, my avatar has returned….
so it has
Has anyone found todays cryptic, I am berift (and stuck)?
It’s status was changed back to draft by accident
Nurse the screens! I’m going to lie down now until the nice matron makes it all better.
Ahhh, so it’s not just me who has lost the Cryptic blog. Will look again later in case someone has found it and put it back in the right place.
Right. I’ve created my own avatar on Gravatar, and I’ve had to use a new name, because “Lostboy” was in use.
So this is an attempt to use my new avatar…..
The avatar is associated with your email address not your alias – you could go back to that if you logout and just enter Lostboy and your email.
Oh! Nice one, thanks BD.
Having a bit of a problem with the site today, when I use the refresh button it goes off and I have to ‘recover’ it
it also says Internet Explorer is having trouble with this website and has stopped trying to recover it, try going back to homepage, this happens if I press the comment or back button, just wondering if anyone else is having a problem?
Still having problems I think I will shut down and reboot
Not done any good still having problems, wonder why?? nuisance and a mystery!
it says ‘when a website causes a shut down or crash, internet explorer stops trying to recover it after two attempts to avoid causing an endless loop’ !! all gobbledygook to me, what a pain, is it just happening to me?
Still having the same problems today but it doesn’t seem as if anyone else is having the same any ideas anyone?
Yes- stop using Internet Explorer – it’s rubbish and doesn’t properly support current internet protocols (and never has!).
Firefox is much better, or try Safari, Opera or Chrome
OK will try one of the others later on to see if that helps, have to go to gym and accupuncture now, thnks Dave
Thank goodness the site is up & running again. I was beginning to get seriously worried that the Happy Engineers (or whatever they called themselves) had abducted BD! It was only a reply e-mail from Pommers that assuaged my concerns.
Can anyone tell me the new address of the Mobile version of this excellent blog? On my Shameless android I seem to start on the right pages then as I enter the latest days blog it reverts to the pc version ….. I’m trying deleting everything in the phones memory but the old address is buried in it somewhere illusive ( or I’m yanking the wrong buttons)…..
I’m not aware that it needs a different address.
It only works on touch phones and there should be an on-off toggle switch at the top or bottom. If you are using the mobile theme it will have a title of “Big Dave’s Mobile Crosword Blog”, and it is a theme not a site in its own right.
Thank goodness normal service seems to be resumed on my computer
Hi Big Dave!
The latest mobile version of the site crashes my phone! Literally!
I have an iPhone 3GS running the latest IOS 5.5.1 and when I try to load today’s (DT 26,870) hints it tries to load it for a while and then crashes completely – by which I mean that the Safari web browser just closes of it’s own accord. I’ve never seen that before!
It may be something to do with the volume of comments (101 at the time of writing) because it loads the current NTSPP page (currently 4 comments) just fine. I haven’t had a chance to rty any of the other pages yet…
Perhaps the WordPress Happiness Engineers are a bit grumpy at the moment?
This one is nothing to do with the Happiness Engineers!
I’ll report it as a problem.
Thanks Dave. I should point out (although I presume you realised this) that I am referring to the “mobile” version of the site. If I switch to the traditional view the page loads just fine on my phone – but I kind of like the mobile version…