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The Battle for Britain
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Real life
With so many last-straw moments to choose from in my house-moving experience, it is a close call to pick the…
Cross lines
In Competition No. 2994 you were invited to submit a letter of complaint from a fictional character to his, hers…
2306: Instruction
‘21D/14’ (four words in total) is an instruction (in ODQ) with which solvers will comply by inserting the remaining unclued…
to 2303: Great 32
Five unclued lights are titles of RAGS (24) by SCOTT JOPLIN (32 31), who died on 1 April 1917. First…
Dear Mary
Q. May I pass on a tip to readers wishing to reject a hopeful romantic partner without hurting their feelings?…
A glimmer of hope
I argued that it was unnecessary to have made sacrifices during Lent in order to celebrate its conclusion. It is…
Battle for Britain
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Low life
When I was depressed 20 years ago, the (then) new antidepressant drug Prozac sorted it easily. It took six weeks…
Envelope
One can push many things — a pen, one’s luck or (up) daisies. But the MP Dominic Raab told the…
Real life
Goodbye then, Bal-ham. You were my gateway to the south. I loved you for so many more reasons than that,…
This snap election’s real victims? Bankers’ wives
The people I feel most sorry for in the wake of Theresa May’s shock announcement are not moderate Labour MPs,…
Fund a fisherman or finance a film
Crowdfunding is a promising idea, and has created useful products. The Canary home-security system I wrote about recently was funded…
Bridge
Not many people can say they’ve partnered David Gold and been the better player — but I’m one of them.…
BCM
The British Chess Magazine is the oldest continuously published chess magazine in the world. Recently it has been boosted by…
no. 453
White to play. This position is from Costachi-Toma, Calimanesti 2017. Can you spot White’s winning coup? Answers to me at…
High life
If any more proof were needed that Brexit is the best thing to happen to Britain since 1066 and all…
2305: Whodunnit?
The unclued lights (one of two words) can be resolved into three associated trios which are not the solution to…
to 2302: Urbane turban
The twelve undefined solutions become one Scottish and eleven English towns, if the final letter is omitted or a letter…
Jamie’s latest plank
Barbecoa is Jamie Oliver’s new restaurant on Piccadilly, and no matter how many times I mutter the name, I do…
High life
Things that I once loved — Fifth Avenue & 57th Street, brownstone terraces on hot summer afternoons, cold beer and…
The Battle for Britain
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Low life
I ran for the airport terminal shuttle bus; the doors shut behind me as I skipped on. I sank into…
King Charles’s head
‘It has become something of a King Charles’ head, or should that be a King Charles’s head?’ said my husband,…
Real life
Some people get into the choosing of tap fittings. I am not a person who gets into the choosing of…
