Those word-wheels spinning freely in your skull now? Try this next half-dozen anagram clues – among the hand-picked humdingers of 2007. Longer answers, sneakier signposts: these will take a tad more musing. 1) Dramatist or thespian, as in play (12) A _ _ _ T _ _ _ _ _ E _ 2) No fieriness [...]
Across most of January, word freaks can celebrate my pick of the 2007 cryptics. First we start with the so-called simplest version of the artform – the anagram. See how many you can unravel. Answers to follow in the next upload. 1) Owner’s new sink (6) _ O _ _ _ _ 2) Can’t use [...]
A wheezy fan was never enough to keep my home office cool, so I decided 3 weeks beside the ocean is the only cure. That’s why the blog will run puzzle fare for most of January: the usual dose of weekly Bird Brains, plus the crème de la crème of cryptic clues culled across last [...]