A chance to share puzzles and virtual meet-ups while we watch the evenings start to get longer
In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners’ series. The setter’s name often links to an interview with him or her, in case you feel like getting to know these people better.
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Wordplay in all but one of the across clues is 17
1acHaving special leaveto pick up consignment of mink perhaps (10)
[wordplay: soundalike (“to pick up”) of phrase suggesting consignment of mink]
[soundalike of “fur load”]
[definition: having special leave]
P. jun. Where is the Deed? Hast thou it with thee?
Pic. No,
It is a thing of greater consequence,
Than to be born about in a Black Box,
Like a Low-Country Vorloffe or Welsh Brief.
It is greatly to the credit of the gentlemen of the army, that they have contrived to obviate the miserable poverty of the English tongue, by adopting the military vocabulary of almost all the nations of Europe. This gives a richness to their language, which is scarcely surpassed by its idiomatic pureness, and intelligibility.
At 8pm GMT tonight - it's the first #DansQuiz of 2021!
The cross between quiz and bingo is back, and (not bigger but) exactly the same as before!
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24acHave one tot after another? (3,3,5,4)
[cryptic definition]