Monthly Archives: October 2022

FINDaWORD (Issue 152) Winners

Match-Ups
Sol: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
$50 Cash
M Atkin, Coffs Harbour NSW; J Burton, Golden Grove SA; D Edwards, Hackham SA; B Shadwick, Lindisfarne TAS; L Tonglee, Norwood SA.

Monster Prize Pool
Sol: The road to a friend’s house is never long according to Danish Tradition
Kitchen Wiz Prize Pack
Mrs J Phillis, Nowra NSW.
Kindle Paperwhite eReader
K Cameron, California [more…]

BIG Winners (Issue 361)

The Demon
Russell Hobbs Sandwich Press
R Horrigan, Baulkham Hills NSW.
$50 Cash
E Lloyd-Taylor, Leanyer NT; P Stratton, Yarralumla ACT.

MEGA! Goliathon
Seed & Sprout Shopping Set
M Coates, Botanic Ridge VIC.
$25 Cash
T Crispin, Belmont WA; N Pye, Lara VIC; B Riley, Ninderry QLD; B Sanders, Centenary Heights QLD.

Contest Coupon
Wiz Words
Sol: Puddle
Macquarie Dictionary & Thesaurus Combined Edition
H Boswood, Jackass Flat [more…]

Christmas around the world

In Japan, for example, celebrating Christmas has only become widely celebrated in the last few decades, and because there isn’t a high population of Christians in Japan, it is seen as more of a family celebration than a religious holiday. One Christmas Eve and Christmas Day tradition in Japan is the eating of fried [more…]

Cluewords 193 – Gremlin

MAXI! 1 , pages12-13

The clue ‘Bounded along’ for the answer LET should have been ‘Authorise’.

Thank you to K Angrave for alerting us to this gremlin.

BIG Competition Solutions – Issue 361

Cats

To be the cat’s whiskers or the cat’s pyjamas means to be an excellent person or thing.  That person may look like the cat that got the cream, very self-satisfied.

However, a cat on a hot tin roof is very agitated. The proverb a cat may look at a king means even a person of [more…]

Cashwords Jackpot 42

£1000 Cash
J Griggs, Prudhoe.

£500 Cash
G Parry, Elton Bury.

£100 Cash
J Burgess, Spalding; D Chandler, Devon; J Hutchinson, Gateshead; J Newman, Fareham; P Okell, Sussex.

UK BIG Winners (Issue 363)

The Demon
£100 Cash
T Busbridge, Devon.
£50 Cash
C Pouncey, North Yorkshire.

MEGA! Goliathon
£100 Cash
R King, Suffolk.
£40 Cash
K Bollons, Peterborough.

Contest Coupon
Wiz Words
Sol: Silkworm
Collins Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary and Lists Set
R Garlick, Cheshire; P Masters, Pilley, Tankersley.

£25 Cash for each contest.

BIG Easy
Sol: Make a beeline
E & H Butler, Norfolk.

Wheel Words
Sol: Registrar
J Holness, Lincolnshire.

The Knew Yorker
Sol: Caterpillar
K Gruitt, Fife.

Acrostic
Sol: Celestial [more…]

UK MEGA Winners (Issue 80)

MEGA Mix
£100 Cash
S Sinfield, Kent.
£25 Cash
A Ludkin, Norfolk.

MEGA Stinker
£100 Cash
A Green, Oxon.
£25 Cash
S Butler, Berkshire.