Another day.

Another Crossword.

this thread hurts my head

 I feel like a right thicko in here (even more than normal).

Join the club Yogi. .glad I'm not alone in the thickness stakes

Not as thick as I felt earlier when it dawned on me that I was trying to fit an answer to the wrong clue  At least I got chocolate :smug:

It's just a question of interpreting the ever changing rules of each compiler. I see it as a way of learning stuff. You think you are thick but you all have better English than I.

I used to do crosswords but never the cryptic ones cos I just couldn't get the 'rules' of them at all. .and I was never much of a wordsmith.. now I am older my ability to find the right words for normal speech is hard enough never mind for a cryptic crossword

 

I like Puzzle/Adventure games tho. .I play loads of them to try and keep my brain active..  not sure it is working tho, unless my brain would be even more mush if I didn't play them at all

i only left to do the housework and all the clues have been solved

if there's a money prize do we get a share for helping?

The one ending in ARGYLE  had a book prize but I very rarely send 'em in. I suppose i Could give so many pages to each assisting FM should the case arise.

I've never been any good at cryptic puzzles. My father can do the Times crossword in under an hour. He gets all the coded/lateral stuff which just goes over (and under) my head!

That help?

Oops! Didn't realise there was a second page.

I gave up doing crosswords ages ago because I found them boring. And word searches are even worse!!!!!

 

I like logic problems though.

Today's crossword was a bugger. We only got half of it, though to be fair we were watching "field of blood" on catch up and then the footie.

I like crosswords, allthough I don't do as many as I used to. Me and mam used to do the Sunday Express one every week, but now I only do them every now and again in the puzzle books. They're good for keeping your mind active. That's why mam and me used to like Countdown 

Here's another........ A*C*D*C*Y River out of churchyard meandering into Austria, perhaps.

Archdiocese. Next.

Tibetan mule:    *

It's too many lettaz!

Archduchy? 

It's an anagram without an R. That looks good soozy! :applause:

Archduchy

Have another ...... T*L*H Ploughing with lean horse?

Tilth

I think there is such a word as Tilth and that has something to do with soil.

I'm going to put tilth in

Haha Soozy! You got in with Archduchy first and I got Tilth first - we're even!

Do you want a decider?

Keep em coming GJ

It's the last one! Depending on how the painter Van Dyck, Van Dike, or Van Dyke is spelt, and we went for the latter...... J*L*Y*Y Or J*L*I*Y Shaker near to Dickensian whose charity began abroad. (we think it's the former)

Ie we think the third last letter is Y!

Jollity??

As in Mr Jolly in one of Dickens books?

So! No decider then but a three way split? If it is correct then Araucaria can't spell his artists!

I was being facetious, but I came kinda close. Pleased with that 

Recap please

Yes I know! Facetious is my middle name also.