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Wellington Anniversary

January 22, 2017 By Phixwd Leave a Comment

Welcome to Wellington Anniversary weekend, when we get an extra day off work to sit at home and watch gales and rain go by.  I get some time to sort out some puzzles, and put up one on the site – this time it’s a 1991 puzzle from The European.  This was a cryptic puzzle from a newspaper designed to cater for the emerging Euro-consensus.  No, Brexit is not among the answers.

We may have storms in unusually high quantities, but we’ve also had the gales without the rain, so a fair bit of sunshine too.  Which means (with another nod to the current situation in Europe) – courgettes!

The big fellow – now chopped up and roasting next to a chicken in that very Romertopf – is 25cm long.  Inside every courgette is a marrow striving to escape, and this one nearly made it.  We can barely keep up with the output of one plant, so why we planted five is a bit of a mystery.  Chocolate cake, probably (yes, really – astonishingly good as a source of moistness).  If it’s any consolation, we can’t grow spinach either.  

As for puzzles during the next fortnight, you will find a Times Quick on the last day of January, and a Jumbo on the first Saturday of February (which I will prod you about next time).  APEX cluewriters who haven’t sent me a clue (and, to be fair, those whose clues I’ve lost – it happens) will be receiving a gentle reminder in the course of this week – unless they act on this mention.

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