30458 – Big Dave's Crossword Blog

DT 30458

Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 30458

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Kia ora from Aotearoa.
The winner of the New Zealand bird of the century poll was announced this morning. It is the pūteketeke or Australasian crested grebe. We have put a photo of one at the end of this blog. It is not a bird that many people are familiar with and the story of how it came to win the election is quite long and complicated so we
won’t go into details here.… Continue reading