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36hrs of TV stand-up on youtube: https://youtube.com/@davegorman235/ I also set crosswords. Bluth in the Indy, Fed in the Graun, Django in the Telegraph Davegorman.com
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I set today’s Telegraph Toughie
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Clues include:
‘Work rest and play’ jingle ultimately lacking say Mars (3,6)
Perhaps Mar-a-Lago porter said why Florida must replace hotel - it’s an awful dive (5-4)
No spoilers, ta!
It’s good to have realistic targets in life
29.01.2026 13:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
David Seaman serving in a pub
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Clues include:
More than one Arsenal star - but not Seaman - drank to excess in retirement (6)
My turn - be quiet (4)
Vegetable peeler - initially a right bargain (7)
No spoilers, ta!
Hooray!
27.01.2026 18:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ta. Tuesday innit.
27.01.2026 11:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A man eating a Magnum
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Clues include
Maybe Magnum’s close to his nose (7)
Rival Pope made strange claims about religious books (8)
Produce - and handle - Elton John for instance (5,4)
Frosty Spike Milligan scene with actor, Oliver Reed taking only seconds (6)
No spoilers ta!
Thanks!
14.01.2026 19:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I set today’s Guardian cryptic:
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Where clues include:
Practical joke - bash knocker - run the other way (5,4)
Bought smack - it’s not for everyone (8,5)
Language in exchange with Larkin - the poet - after losing pages (7)
No spoilers, ta!
I can
03.01.2026 09:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ta!
02.01.2026 23:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Dyson Airblade hand dryer
I set today’s Guardian cryptic:
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Clues include:
A Dyson Airblade was primarily designed for the current time (8)
Or try to get fairground prize? (8)
Had coffee for one day on order (5)
No spoilers ta!
A Looney Tunes Daffy Duck cartoon title page
I today’s Indy cryptic
puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...
Clues include:
Voice of Loonie Tunes’ biggest characters appearing in Daffy cartoon (9)
Prince is banished, retiring conclusively, hence King can relax (6)
American cutting record up, specifically number one? (6)
No spoilers, ta!
Happy Christmas… I got you a crossword. (Today’s Telegraph Toughie)
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Clues include:
Frank’s suggestion for anything in Yorkshire (9)
Charge new iPhone less on Mac (7)
With Camilla’s backing, regularly tells King to roll joint (5)
No spoilers, ta!
Thanks. (I think it’s the second time - I was also in that slot back in August)
06.12.2025 13:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0* “one artiste essentially”
06.12.2025 13:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Tin Church, Laragh
I set today’s Guardian prize cryptic:
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p...
Clues include:
Judge adult getting into cartoon bird (4,3)
Seat for obevartistebessentially jamming on a musical instrument (7)
Also covered by Ian Dury (3)
Tin church, Laragh’s source for scrap (6)
No spoilers, ta!
An exciting picture of clutch, brake & accelerator pedals!
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie:
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Clues include:
Clutch extremely, well, close to brake and throttle (5)
Saves defender getting on end of crosses (4,4)
Soloist originally meant to play viola part? (6)
No spoilers, ta!
Thank you. It was at the easier end of things - I don’t really care about the difficulty, either I like the clues or I don’t. The editors schedule them - so they weigh up difficulty for that reason.
19.11.2025 07:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yogi Bear & Boo-Boo
I set today’s Guardian cryptic:
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Clues include:
Yogi Bear ultimately stops Boo-Boo becoming zoo attraction? (7)
Evasive action leads to swearing if Dawn French is recording (8)
Puzzle annoys over one thousand (eg 1331) (6,4)
No spoilers, ta!
Ta!
(And that’s Jane, bless her)
Thank you!
07.11.2025 01:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Google’s changing algorithms means it’s a moot point. A search for terms X & Y used to return only pages that contained _both_ X & Y. Nowadays it returns things with just X or just Y and maybe something it thinks you might have meant but didn’t type etc etc
06.11.2025 08:49 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Footballers, Ezri Konsa & Mo Salah
… the Guardian
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Where clues include:
Turnover seen when Konsa goes up against Mo Salah (6)
Perhaps Albert Finney’s content with set I redesigned (8)
Metal drawer (6)
No spoilers ta!
The single, ‘Everlasting Love’ by Carl Carlton
I set 2 crosswords today. The Indy:
puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...
Clues include:
Everlasting Love - hit single over in America - Carl finally makes it(7)
Flush loo - handle occasionally stays down (have wiped) (6)
Make out with Diane regularly seeking penetration (7)
No spoilers, ta!
&…
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Clues include
Moe’s Happy Hour entertains one of the Simpsons(5)
Plane in Cologne maybe held up for work on the outside(9)
Prince might look up to this cover of Caruso by Pavarotti - perhaps in retirement(7)
No spoilers, ta!
Headline about the American golfers being paid to play in the Ryder Cup
I set today’s Guardian cryptic
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Clues include:
Player of golf round stood to make this kind of bread (7)
Welshman capturing El Salvador? (4)
Ruin sex and - essentially - what’s left of marriage (7)
No spoilers, ta!
Ta!
10.10.2025 06:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ross King in Strictly
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Clues include:
State, say, Ross King’s content to start (7)
Articulated food truck, oddly, a three-wheeler (3,3)
Tell composer Fellini’s sorry about cutting bits (7)
No spoilers, ta!
No!
03.09.2025 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ernie Els obvs. Bloody autocorrect!
03.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
