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Columba

Crossword

2092: Attend

Columba 8 December 2012 9:00 am

Clues in italics are definitions only. In each of their answers, it is necessary to 32 10 (a four-word phrase)…

2089: backward and forward

Columba 8 December 2012 9:00 am

The unclued lights (16D/21? 16D/16A/23/38/24/11/14?) form a quotation by SHYLOCK in The Merchant of Venice. A number of references to…

2086: Tufty

Columba 27 October 2012 9:00 am

One unclued light, a term for any member of a group to which two unclued lights belong, can be divided…

2083: groundless

Columba 27 October 2012 9:00 am

Unclued entries, when augmented by the letter that follows them in the grid, are all types of coffee or coffee…

2077: below par

Columba 15 September 2012 9:00 am

Extra letters in jumbles, plus INITIALS (37) of clues, give the saying ‘Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles…

2080: Players

Columba 15 September 2012 9:00 am

Each of twenty-one definitions contains one misprinted letter. Corrections of misprints spell two items of the same kind as the…

2077: Below par

Columba 25 August 2012 6:00 am

Each of seventeen clues comprises a definition part and a hidden consecutive jumble of the answer including one extra letter.…

2074: capital punishment

Columba 25 August 2012 6:00 am

Six unclued lights are names for HELL (12), which is ‘A CITY MUCH LIKE LONDON’ (38 43) according to a…

2074: Capital punishment

Columba 4 August 2012 6:00 am

Six unclued lights are synonymous with one unclued light which, according to a quotation in ODQ, is 38 43 (five…

2071

Columba 4 August 2012 6:00 am

LETHAL BITES (14 7) and BLITHE TALES (36 33) are possible results of the STORMING (19) of THE BASTILLE (an…

Crossword 2071: 14-7

Columba 14 July 2012 6:00 am

Each of twenty-four clues comprises a definition part and a hidden consecutive jumble of the answer including one extra letter;…

Solution to 2068: Hard case

Columba 14 July 2012 6:00 am

‘ALAS, POOR YORICK’ (4) is an utterance by HAMLET on discovering the SKULL of the JESTER (11).  Six unclued lights…

Crossword 2068: Hard case

Columba 23 June 2012 6:00 am

One unclued light is an utterance prompted by a discovery. One unclued light is the occupation of the person to…

Crossword 2065 solution

Columba 23 June 2012 6:00 am

AND could be found in the grid connecting NAME & ADDRESS, HERO & LEANDER, and BANGERS & MASH, so 19…

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