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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
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
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Clues include
Hole where bogeys could be upsetting to Ernie Else - but not the Europeans (7)
Conversation in Siamese maybe translated into French (4)
Regularly daub it with Flora Light spread - tasty! (1,3,2,3,5)
No spoilers, ta!
Damn you autocorrect - that’s supposed to be Fergus not Ferguson
14.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Run on dollar came after banks withdraw - this helps keep books in order (7)
Supply easel through us - stock ends here (14)
Looks himself up online - Ferguson upset about OnlyFans having removed content (8)
No spoilers, ta!
That first clue should be (11) not (10)… but you knew that
31.07.2025 13:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I set today’s Indy cryptic: puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...
Sample clues:
Case of animal lust - tell her to go wild? (10)
Clue to get her love as there’s no more Mr Nice Guy (3,6,3,3)
A guy free from anxiety (2,4)
No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie:
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Clues include:
Damaged baggy light red trousers - getting home to change? (5,4)
First to smoke weed in Oxford? (4)
Dead right I’ll see you in a bit (5)
No spoilers, ta!
Roger Moorecand Richard Kiel as James Bond and Jaws
I set today’s Guardian cryptic:
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Clues include:
Bond villain, Jaws essentially breaking back to get ahead (6)
E-coli must, mostly, spread in bowl (8)
Journalist: Balls maybe yellow after sex (6)
No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Indy cryptic:
puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...
Clues include:
Bad effect that follows dessert wine? (10)
Square character keeping something barbershop needs (4-4,7)
Dawn making new props occasionally - wow (8)
No spoilers, ta!
That was the wrong link. This - I hope - is the right one: www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
26.06.2025 20:14 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Doris Day
I set today’s Guardian cryptic:
www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c...
Clues include:
Supervisors lost Carphone Warehouse business ultimately (10)
Stolen sinks initiating court action? (4,4)
No.1 for Doris Day after record label advance - one that’s almost divine (7)
No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie
www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz...
Criminal mastermind finally traps James Bond - overlooking very problematic plot point? (5,3)
Married man hides crush (5)
Flat/apt (5)
No spoilers, ta!
If you got the answer, you probably did. Ultimately.
19.06.2025 08:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ta!
12.06.2025 21:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cheers!
12.06.2025 21:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ta!
12.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ta!
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