Some frosts this week – to be repeated in the days to come. We have gathered what must be the last of the feijoas (though I’ve said that before), and we still do not have the heating repaired, since it has proved impossible to get the parts delivered from Auckland in under a week. The ongoing chill and damp has set off bursts of bronchitis in both of us.
I hadn’t expected to get a puzzle up this weekend, but I have squeezed in a Church Times puzzle from 2008.
There was a puzzle on Derby Day in The Guardian which packed an impressive number of names of past Derby winners into grid and clues – and it all passed me by completely, despite my having solved a few Derby-themed puzzles over the years. But the puzzle did it all without requiring knowledge of the theme (except for a slightly odd clue about The Scarlet Pimpernel, which made little sense without thematic awareness). That’s what should happen with themes, of course (let alone themes of racecourse), so all was good.
We’re back to bullet points for the plethora of puzzles coming up in the next fortnight:
- June 13: Pangakupu in The Guardian
- June 14: Pedro in The Times Quick Cryptic
- June 16: regular Independent puzzle
- June 16: Church Times
- June 23: regular Independent puzzle
- June 24: an Inquisitor called Carte Blanche a Trois
And somewhere around June 24, I shall be here again. Meanwhile, pending heating restoration, I shall go and join the rest of the household huddled in a single room.
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