🍺 William Ryan
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#CrosswordsInThePub coming to your to from Kiama, which translates to "where the sea makes a noise". It comes from Kiaram-a, an Indigenous Wodi Wodi word. This name describes the sound of the famous Kiama Blowhole. Here endeth the lesson, @dontattempt.bsky.social
#CrosswordsInThePub is tardy, because: a) Life is short b) @lrlr.bsky.social sent me an inappropriate anagram c) I’ve been jentacular imbibing, with both hands d) @dontattempt.bsky.social foxed me into thinking I’d nail this despite the handicap of day-drinking e) all of the above
#CrosswordsInThePub Friday iteration courtesy of DA @dontattempt.bsky.social WTAF, dude⁉️ **SPOILERS** Committed half-an-hour. Surmised, it’s some sort of anagram/subtraction thingy. Doing my head in - Especially, as I only had the online grid. Will revisit. KMN, @zinzan-xwd.bsky.social
#CrosswordsInThePub My semi-regular Friday post of the Melbourne Age & Sydney Morning Herald #cryptic coming to you from Chippendale - the suburb in 🇦🇺, not JD Vance wet dream. Compiled by the most erudite, @dontattempt.bsky.social *Phut - is a word, I love - sparingly - thrown into the mix.
Bit of a misnomer as my regular Friday DA #crosswordsinthepub is coming to vous, chez nous. Wow. Tricky little sucker, today. Couple short, and a few ? that I’ll have to defer to @zinzan-xwd.bsky.social excellent blog on said, DA @dontattempt.bsky.social 4D was the Eureka moment. **SPOILERS**
#crosswordsinthepub My usual Friday solution of DA aka @dontattempt.bsky.social coming to you from Chippendale. Hour, low: 3 short, 6 marked ? Will have to log in to the excellent DA blog by @zinzan-xwd.bsky.social Early night, as I’m back here to open up at 3:00am for the ⚽️ **SPOILER**
#CrosswordsInThePub on this particular Friday coinciding with the Socceroos v Paraguay. Half-time. Hour-n-half committed, half an ⚽️ XI short. (Dunno, nor care, who the 6D is, but a great clue) @dontattempt.bsky.social
#WheresTommy David Stickley always hides Tommy, as in Emmanuel, in all his Age/SMH Omegas. Easy find, today. #crosswordsinthepub
#crosswordsinthepub Fridays with @dontattempt.bsky.social in the SMH/Age. Jentacular time-slot - long lunch on the cards. Penny dropped, pretty quickly - didn’t mean it wasn’t an effort. 🍐🍊🍈🍇🫐🍋 Good fun, in the end. (One short) Love your work, DA. **SPOILERS**
Not as though anyone was champing at the bit for my usual Friday #crosswordsinthepub with DA @dontattempt.bsky.social …but, opened the doors @ 0430 (Oh, my God, it’s early) for a certain ⚽️ match. Segued into another, so my cruciverbal commitments came third. Best I could do. **Spoilers**
@rhysam.bsky.social Half-time: WTF! And, there are two Waverley OBs out there!
#crosswordsinthepub on our regular Friday gig ft. @dontattempt.bsky.social Good, clean fun, mate. Thank you. 18a might garner some letters to the editor… 😂 **SPOILERS**
#crosswordsinthepub on a Friday in Fern Rouge - despite entertaining a coterie of kibitzers - still a couple short. Much hilarity ensued. Love your work, @dontattempt.bsky.social
‘Where’s Tommy?’ David Stickley, Age/SMH compiler on Wednesdays, hides ‘Tommy’ in all his Omegas. (Homage to his favourite muso, Tommy Emmanuel). Always fun tracking him down…! @zinzan-xwd.bsky.social @lrlr.bsky.social @dontattempt.bsky.social @silentknightsk.bsky.social
#crosswordsinthepub on a Friday, tackling DA of the Age/SMH @dontattempt.bsky.social Barely a pass-mark - one hour, several short. Either not enough, or too much, thinking juice… **SPOILERS**
#crosswordsinthepub with DA from the SMH/Age @dontattempt.bsky.social One hour, neat - need to be on the tools, today - four short, four ? I’ll need to visit the outstanding DA Blog by @zinzan-xwd.bsky.social for parsing & missing. **SPOILERS**
#crosswordsintgepub Friday edition by @dontattempt.bsky.social in the SMH/Age, coming to you from the outstanding Glengarry Castle. One hour commitment, several short. I’ll need to visit the excellent DA blog by @zinzan-xwd.bsky.social to see where I went phut. **SPOILERS**
#crosswordsinthepub Coming to you from Australia’s third oldest white settlement, and oldest watering-hole on the mainland. Hour, twenty - several short, @dontattempt.bsky.social **SPOILERS**