Never a good week when you go down with flu on the Monday – possibly a record sneezing fit (I lost count at seventeen), followed by a couple of days of coughing that left my chest aching. Even now I haven’t quite got as much strength back as I think I have – you wake up in the morning feeling well, and then you stand up and the flu reminds you it hasn’t gone, not quite, not yet.
And you were supposed to get a Church Times puzzle this week – but all I could find in the current box were ones already put up on the site but not indexed on the Church Times page. They are now.
So instead I turned to the next on my list – Beelzebub, and stumbled on a milestone puzzle. See if you can work out which milestone – there are some pretty big hints – before checking the solution page (no, it’s not because it’s 13 in binary).
In the coming next week department, there’s a further appearance of Pangakupu in The Guardian on 16 May, but otherwise the rest of the month sees only the Friday Independent puzzles.
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Sorry to hear this. A whole week lost is not a nice thing. Hopefully, time spent at home with the cats and the late summer sun will speed up your recovery. A colleague got to do one of your Times crosswords last week and found it most satisfying. Do you know when you will have more in the Times?
thanks for the Beelzebub — the theme escaped me (though I looked it up on 15^2) — who’s the “other half”?
At the time the ‘other’ Beelzebub was Michael MacDonald-Cooper.
I was only counting my own contributions, of course.