RIP Colin Dexter
The death of Colin Dexter sadly means the loss of another of the brightest lights in the clue writing world. He won first prize in Ximenes competitions on ten occasions, and lifted the Azed cup a remarkable thirty times.
Welcome to The Clue Clinic
Clues from the Woodstock Bus
Colin Dexter’s first Morse novel, Last Bus to Woodstock, has more links to the world of crosswords than might appear obvious
Annotation of Cryptic Clues
In this post we describe a ‘shorthand’ notation for the explanation of cryptic clues.
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Hi, Can you help me parse this please? Batsman unable to score many wuns worn out (6) WABBIT From last weeks Mephisto. I gave up trying to parse it then. Worn out as the...
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