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Permanently Puzzled
http://www.permanentlypuzzled.blogspot.com
A sideways look at the world of puzzling and the effectiveness of puzzles in delaying senility.
- Added on: Oct 26th, 2009
- Country: New Zealand
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Celebrity question
Cryptic of the week: Spread out and started trade for the day (6)My puzzling is settling down into a bit of a frantic routine. Friday I start the Listener crossword - usually finished by Sunday, Monday. Then a bit of R...
Blowin\' in the wind
Cryptic of the week: Old stager put chopped up tree in van (7)Well, what a week. I came across the cryptic clue - "A whirl of activity in bed, Dylan sang (4)" - in the Listener and very cleverly (I thought) identified "...
Senile dementia or Performance Pressure - you decide!
Cryptic of the week: Sacked, no doubt! (2,3,3)I decided to rest my Rubik's twirling for a week or so to see how firmly planted in my grey matter the sequences were. After all, memory problems are one of the f...
Why am I doing this?
Cryptic of the week: Right always, that is a daydream (7)I’ve been enjoying recording my puzzle musings so much that I almost forgot that I am doing it for a reason. You may recall, I am hoping that the unfamiliarity of sitting at the key...
Getting it of my chess
Cryptic of the week: Tuft that is forming small cloth (6)One of my favourite puzzles, if it can be called a puzzle, is Chess Problems. They don't appear in many mags and papers anymore - Wellington's Dominion Post and Listener Ma...
Speechless sterile donkey?
Cryptic of the week: Current reversal is a real howler (4)Gosh, I can be a dumb ass sometimes. At a loose end the other evening, stuck in a hotel in Wellington and unable to make much of a dent in the Dominion Post cryptic crossword, I turned m...
