Paul’s Zooms, by the way, continue.įind a collection of explainers, interviews and other helpful bits and bobs at. … in the style of Your Song for CASSOULET. Word games grouped by topic to help build student vocabulary For further help with: CEFR level of words Pronunciation Definitions Example Sentences visit: English Vocabulary Profile: Cambridge Dictionaries Online: UCLES 2013. The annotated solution is now available for Paul’s recent prize puzzle, including an explanation of his audacious 15 across as well as this self-referential clue …ġ1dAs clue to ‘stew’ initially forms – this is it! (9) Please leave entries for the current competition – as well as your non-print finds and picks from the broadsheet cryptics – in the comments. The runners-up are Patjberry47’s neat “Junior has angered the old priest” and Montano’s erudite “Old Testament character, leader of Jews – or the alternative?” the winner is the elegant “Black sheep’s briefly lost – only taking seconds to find a shepherd”. My apologies to those who felt constrained by the lack of available Jethros, with the comedian getting his moment in clues like Smallboat01’s sly “Purveyor of Cornish Blue?” and Radnag’s ingenious Croquem-inspired “Brand of comedy embracing the right to be upset? That’s him!” The next time we have a name, I’ll try to remember to stress that such things as “man” and “lad” are, in my view, fair game as a definition. Reader, how would you clue WELSH SPRINGER SPANIEL? Cluing competition Then the Welshman’s habit of softening B into P may serve its turn, so that for PLIGHTER we may offer ‘The Welsh beggar has taken the pledge.’įor our next challenge, let’s instead turn to something unambiguously positive. It would be a rare modern solver who would even understand a clue written using the device described by the great DS Macnutt in the 1966 book, Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword: Welsh, happily, tends to pop up nowadays in the top three of those polls they are always doing about accents the British public considers the most trusted or most sensual. We can, happily, only imagine how the conversations would have gone had Twitter existed in the 1780s. Since, mirthlessly, a “Welsh mile” was once used to describe a distance that felt tedious, a “Welsh road” was tricky to travel on and a “Welsh brief” unintelligible, “Welsh rabbit” was probably an English way of mocking the Welsh for supposedly substituting cheese for even so humble a meat as the rabbit. The dish was called Welsh rabbit in the 18th century before anyone started saying RAREBIT and the change was most likely an attempt to avoid offence. The news in cluesįrom the quiptic, the Guardian’s puzzle “for beginners and those in a hurry”, a clue from what, by my count, is the sixth from Bartland:ĩaCheese on toast? Bloody small piece! (7) For really committed topicality, the setter known locally as Picaroon has assembled the Financial Times’s latest news puzzle. And as members of cabinets past and recent wage war on the state, there is a timely tang to Pasquale’s clue …ġ8dDiplomat worries about government’s latest measures (8) As he takes his brand of belligerent vacuity to another area of life, we say goodbye to a former deputy prime minister …ġac Complains conclusion of Dominic Raab’s heartless (5)
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