Loving this clue by LR (who I mistakenly called RJ earlier 😢 apols)

“He made large mushrooms; ripe with one hemp fusion (11)”

HINT; ‘mushrooms’ does not refer to vegetables, rather clouds after an explosion!

An anagram is required

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Wow

Big day for cruciverbalists everywhere as David Astle takes a well earned break

RJ - let’s see what you’ve got!

I appreciate some flights are more in demand than others but ...

Swapping a Thurs 9:30am Business Class flight Melb - Syd (a month away) to a 6.15am flight

Qantas wants an extra $51 to change Business to Red-E Deal!!!; ($223 to swap to fully flex, $800 to keep business)

#Phew

How on earth has Toby Greene escaped sanction the last couple of weeks

He’s genuinely cleaned up his act but the “arms pinned - sling - opponents head into the ground” just has to be a week (ask Luke Parker last yr v Blues)

& the karate kick a couple of rounds back …

Bizarre

Make and Model?

As a stepfather to a 16 year old this is scary

I’d like to think our boy wouldn’t get caught up in something like this but naïveté can be a curse

Really worth reading & discussing with all teenage boys / young men

Esp the “Sextortion Playbook” section

smh.com.au/national/nsw/s…

2 sling tackles in 10 seconds

Both opponents head hit the ground

Gift for ⁦St Kilda FC⁩ & ⁦Carlton FC⁩ fans

Surely this is two weeks no discussion

For reference see Luke Parker’s far less dangerous (1 week out) effort on Walsh last year afl.com.au/video/1103913

Read an article yesterday about the measures shopping malls are taking to prevent decline

Waterfalls, play equipment, indoor greenery

How about decent f**king mobile coverage

Current choice btw dead zone and “free centre Wi-Fi” that can’t access most apps must drive 1000s away

This gorgeous clue from ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ cryptic certainly threw me at first

“It’s art is not laid out in squares (15)”

HINT; I immediately saw the wordplay as an anagram

But missed that the

answer = “squares” (as in ‘not the cool kids’)

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Hey American Express perhaps you’d like to clarify something

When I call your “24 hour customer service” number and am told by the machine “this office is now closed call back during our regular office hours”

Precisely when does your “24 hour” service open and close???

Shocked and stunned to read that the “social experiment” that is Couple to Throuple doesn’t work out as a tv show

smh.com.au/culture/tv-and…

Frog Symphony in North Narrabeen this morning

Anyone able to identify the critter behind this post rain ribbet rhythm?

Jodi Rowley ???

Perhaps someone who has studied theology can answer this;

If God created “light” on day 1 & “the sky” on day 2, when did he create dark energy (it extends beyond the sky but doesn’t interact with light)

New 3D cosmic map raises qs over future of universe theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

“Yes I, well raced a little, looking back (4,5)”

HINT; the straight clue is total clue!

And the answer is contained as a string of letters (backwards) in the clue!

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Beautiful stuff

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No great surprise that my first in to the Friday DA cryptic had a (hidden) mathematical bent!

“Nine months, verily? (3)”

HINT; how can you think of nine months in mathematical terms?

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I’d be stunned if NRL star David Klemmer referred to it as a ‘bras d’honneur moment’!

“Klemmer told this masthead he only became aware of his bras d’honneur moment at CommBank Stadium when his sons Cooper & Jackson, 11 and 9, showed him the replay.”

smh.com.au/sport/nrl/boys…

Any arborist able to explain this self sudsing tree foaming up in the Sydney rain?

Cheers Michael Cook

Personally I think that the role of the Governor General is that of 'representing the Monarchy' to be precisely the problem

There are few concepts that I take as true and yet have so much problem understanding what they actually mean as the notion that “there is no such thing as free will”

This is a fascinating and entirely worthwhile 2 hour listen

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samharris.org/episode/SE5C22…

Gorgeous clue featuring a major misdirection in today’s Times Cryptic;

“High mass having a major link with Islam originally, surprisingly (11)”

HINTS;

1. “originally” = first letter
2. “surprisingly” = anagram
3. “mass” Is NOT religion (think geography)

Show your working🤞