guardian crossword matilda

The use of the apostrophe in this way is a trick I do not remember encountering before in many years of crossword solving, so I will add it to my mental armoury. Gordon Bok, Ed Trickett and Ann Muir made a lot of wonderful records together: Ed takes the lead in this one. The internet just confused me: here, assonance is internal rhyme; there, rhyme is the same sound at the end of a word. Still can’t see the Nina. Struck me as very Arachne-esque in places.

It might have been wrapped around their few meagre possessions. 0000036568 00000 n Inside the Guardian Guardian Weekly Crosswords Facebook Twitter Search jobs Digital Archive Coupons ... About 31 results for Matilda. Really enjoyed this puzzle – a variety of imaginative constructions. I think I saw the original years ago but I haven’t seen the remake or the sequels. Ian McEwan theme helped a lot after the first pass got me Amsterdam, and then Hand Lotion led to Atonement. Great crossword. I’ve not seen a tenth of the operas whose titles I know, or read even 5% of the poetry which I can quote odd lines of. Anyway I entered all the letters for the nina and it was very plain sailing from there on. [Lockdown buster number 2 – missing independent cinema try Curzon streaming. Not sure that laicised means without religion as the laity, ie the people, make up the vast majority of a religious group, though I do note the question mark. We would like to thank you for visiting our website! Thanks for your blog Andrew. Great nina (had read the G thread earlier, post-solve, so knew to look for it).

... PAGE/PAGER in the “summon” sense is one of those obsolete uses that crossword solvers have to get used to, like T for model and AL for gangster. duh! Thanks both, I must stop reading this blog.

0000013480 00000 n And for the parsing too, of course. ), and it keeps one on one’s toes. I’m fine with the clueing treating discover as the combination of two words but don’t like the grid separation. Brava Matilda. The wordplay in 11a and the definition in 21d made me think of Paul’s crossword clues; Matilda, has he been leading you astray? I liked the two long ones and had ticks for 10a ENNUI, 19a ICONOCLAST and 24a NEEDFUL as well. Yes, some of the clues were very Quiptic-y; but there were also some excellent ones, for instance 24ac (I do love well constructed partial anagrams) and 3, 25dn. Glad I wasn’t alone – though we may yet turn out to be the only two, you and I. Thanks Matilda for a well-crafted puzzle, and to Andrew for a good blog and some nice calming music.

Totally enjoyable despite the breezing through. Agree, rohanm, over in no time but yes nice succinct clues (and I do hope the spider lady’s ok, it’s been ages!). I liked NAVY BLUE, where at the beginning I shoved in nile blue as I was determined that there was to be an anagram of bile. LARCENOUS was very good. Another enjoyable Quiptic from Matilda this morning. Hello Everyone! In the latter case, I was looking for some kind of link between the four clues with those numbers – a total dry gully. You have landed on our site then most probably you are looking for the solution of Matilda, therefore, no longer put into quarantine crossword. ] What a lovely way to fill these empty hours.

Guardian Quiptic 1,086/Matilda. Perhaps just not too swarthy? [To our shame, here in Australia, deaths in custody number 25% of the total, while our first nations people represent only 2-3% of the population. Plus extra congratulations to Matilda for a wonderful Nina!

I think you’ve got a blind spot on this one (a problem that I’ve had in the past!). I’d been waiting all week for that Nina. Please click 'Accept' to close this notification. Welcome Matilda. PARABLE was cute and I enjoyed CARELESS. BERMUDA TRIANGLE (which was my third last in!) Thanks to all and especially for the elucidation on assonance and rhyme. White) and illustrator (Garth Williams). Thanks Matilda, my only complaint would be that the fun ran out too quickly. A pleasant solve that was much easier than yesterday with two outstanding clues for me – the well worked LARCENOUS and the very amusing BALMORAL – also my loi. LOI was 12a priming. Don’t usually get into arguing cw technicalities, but…interesting question.. ..or indeed “every second” or “every other”…might be wrong, but I’m sure there are cases where the starting point varies.. bodycheetah @65 well I didn’t want to upset anybody with ‘please cease the trait’. I finally heard a theme I’d heard before. Right? Mark – I see where you’re coming from. Cheers all. If the link isn’t, then using. Many thanks for taking the trouble to, er, spell it out, sheffield hatter @105.

Thanks to Matilda, and welcome to the other side. Although a tad easier than Brummie yesterday, this had a much more polished feel to it and the nina was the icing on the cake. When my friend Ruth and I visited London in the 70’s we thought of all the Underground lines as “the Red Line,” “the Green Line,” etc., as they would have been called in Boston. For me, splitting discover into disc & over IS acceptable, because this, after all, is crosswordland!

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