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Weather-induced self-isolation

May 3, 2020 By Phixwd 1 Comment

Once the wind and the rain set in, it’s almost a pleasure not to leave the house – and the fact we have a delivery later this afternoon merely brings to mind my late and esteemed colleague, Schadenfreude.

So no real distraction from getting up today’s puzzle (a Beelzebub from 2015) other than a little run of completed puzzles to send off to various editors.  And hence the next in the series now need to have grids generated.  Still, if it stays like this, I might even get a Times Jumbo finished.

Which would replace the one coming up next week on Saturday 9 May.  To which date my weekly Independent puzzle has also been shifted (from its usual Friday – naught to do with me, squire; ask whoever’s appearing on the Friday), thus depriving me of a trio of appearances on consecutive days starting with a Toughie on Thursday 7 May.  There’s also a Times Quick from Pedro on Monday 11 May – all thick and fast that weekend. 

I hope to find time to get another puzzle up next weekend, even as New Zealand edges out of lockdown and work starts to – well, start.

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  1. Niall MacSweeney says

    May 4, 2020 at 1:28 am

    Only a guess, but the puzzle’s move from Friday might be as it’s a special day with its own Bank Holiday this year, though not many may be about, as it has all panned out

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