Dave Gorman
@davegorman
36hrs of TV stand-up on youtube: I also set crosswords. Bluth in the Indy, Fed in the Graun, Django in the Telegraph Davegorman.com
I set today’s Guardian cryptic: www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c... Clues include: Viewer’s complaint leads to Musical Youth’s opening piano number being cancelled (6) Ready before clergyman describes Eden? (5,8) Day after Laurel and Hardy discovered model (8) No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Guardian prize crossword: www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p... Clues include Slogan - one used by Kanye and GAP before silly, flawed deal’s conclusion (6,2,5,7,2,4) Nintendo console installing game after turning knobs (7) Dundee’s comic strips (7) No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz... Clues include: Amazon’s owner, having turned his focus to its margins, parties (6) Finally no worries about space in circus for performing seals (1-5) No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Telegraph crossword: www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz... Clues include: Sport with lanes in PE with Bolt winning stupidly (6,7) Pasta in new bags (7) Women’s group having rushed around, made a decision on Tinder (6) No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Guardian prize crossword: www.theguardian.com/crosswords/p... Clues include: Uhura discovered characters bringing up the rear in red will die in difficulty (6) Unknown joining Disney to make music (5) Small PC close to price range (5) No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Telegraph cryptic: www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz... Sierra with funny Nora Batty navigation system! (5) Maintenance of whichever luxury car breaks (7) Regularly got naked to have following on X (5) No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie: www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz... Top secret number - good feature for TV gameshow (7,5) Mistake giving new order to “about turn” (4) For example, I translated Norman Mailer after I left university (5,7) No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Telegraph Toughie www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz... Standing next to Mark Gatiss for the finale in Calvin Klein briefs & a Rolex?! (6,7) Heavy material in what could be Shirley Temple’s biggest feature (7) No spoilers, ta!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
… 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!
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 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!
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!
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!
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 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 Guardian cryptic: www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c... Clues include: Carry On Up The Khyber re-release ultimately must accept cut (9) Orthodox teen maybe trained by orthodox teen (3,3,4,4) Number one sport to initiate change in India? (5) No spoilers, ta!
I set today’s Guardian cryptic: www.theguardian.com/crosswords/c... By all conclusions two or three turn over a new leaf (7) Bitter’s free on account (5) Does he tend to hack Yahoo after turning on firm (9) Also features Doctor Who, Willy Wonka &a Dutch cap No spoilers, ta!
I forgot that I’d set today’s Telegraph Toughie www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz... Is getting out of cab more dangerous for Jimmy Carr, once? (3,6) Oddly Anthea Turner regularly starts day without standing (7) See WC Fields finally getting on top - unsteadily (7) No spoilers, ta!
I set todays Telegraph Toughie: www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/puzz... John Bishop is ingesting new American drug (8) Shoot using 10 bore that’s sawn-off (7) Scandinavian band, after reforming try adding cover of smash hit single (1,4,4,5) No spoilers, ta!
“Hi, I’m looking for the worst Mothers Day gift ever?” “Have you thought about a frying pan?” “I can see where you’re going - it’s bad but can you make it worse?” “A Gino D’Acampo frying pan?” “Sold!”
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