Magazine Gremlins – Australian and New Zealand titles

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Crossword & Puzzle Collection 120 – Gremlin – The Knowledge

The Knowledge, page 88

The ‘D’ has dropped off the word ‘Drop’ in the clue at 12 across ‘Actress wife of Kevin Kline and star of Drop Dead Fred, Phoebe … ‘

Thank you to Don Butler of SA for alerting us to this gremlin

Cluewords 153 – Gremlin

Cluewords 21, page 44

The ‘I’ has dropped off the clue ‘nsect larva’

Thank you to Max Allen for alerting us to this gremlin

Crossword & Puzzle Collection 118 – Gremlin – Baffler p27

The Baffler, page 27

A TITI is a New World monkey not an ‘Old World monkey

Thank you to Merilyn House from Helensburgh, NSW for alerting us to this gremlin

Crossword & Puzzle Collection 118 – Gremlin – Baffler p117

Baffler solution, page 117

The solution for the clue ‘Kristin … Thomas’ reads LCOTT instead of SCOTT

Thanks to Christine Rae of Donnybrook WA for alerting us to this gremlin

Colossus Crosswords 182 – Gremlin

Stinker From The Vault, page 62

201dn ‘Present day Pope’ for the answer BENEDICT should have read ‘Former Pope’

Thank you to Tony & Val Martin of Palm Beach for reporting this gremlin to us

MEGA! Crosswords® 118 – Gremlin

Christine’s MEGA Mix, page 12

The clue at 18 down ‘Tasmanian Mark … was Test cricket captain from 1994 to 1999 (6)’ is incorrect. Mark Taylor was born in Leeton, NSW

Thanks to Terri Thompson from Tasmania for alerting us to this gremlin

Christine’s BIG Crossword 317 – Gremlin

Acrostic, page 54

The puzzle instructions should say ‘The boxed letters from…’ not ‘The shaded letters from…’

Thank you to Stuart Clark from Ellenbrook for alerting us to this error

Christine’s BIG Crossword 318 – Gremlin

Christine’s Cryptic Crossword, page 24

The clue at 3 down should have the word-length (7) instead of (5).

Thank you to Philippa Heddles for alerting us to this gremlin

Crossword & Puzzle Collection 117

Acrostic, page 71

Solution should be ‘creates’ not ‘create’.

Thanks to David Needham from Tasmania for reporting this gremlin.