Monthly Archives: January 2010

This week’s a goodie?

Make your verdict here.

(No spoilers on this post till Monday)

Update: Has this been the poorest month of DAs on record?

I really wanted to love this crossword. I love cricket and I especially love cricket terminology — silly mid off, short leg, fine leg, french cut, left-arm chinaman, googly, slips, leg cutter, yorker, flipper, bumper, bouncer, cherry, full toss are all colourful and fun.

Alas, I struggled. Maybe I whinge too much, maybe my skills are waning, but right now I’m thinking I was unjustifiably made to struggle on a few occasions.

Am I just a trundling grumbler, or was this cryptic as lacking in joy as I found it?

Sydneysiders still get in first with the DA goodstuff. At least for a few minutes, my impatience is diverted by the kenken puzzles that The Age has only recently started to publish, but not on Saturdays.

DA, Friday still misses you.

(No spoilers till Monday)

Update: I didn’t do it.

For the first time in a long time, I didn’t do the DA while in Melbourne. I had a quick look in a cafe, worked out LOST CAUSE and SIGNED UP and never went back to it.

By the sounds of things, though, this week’s was rather a frustrating one. I harbour the suspicion that working out LOST CAUSE was what stopped me bothering with the rest of it: COST LAWS as a slow movement towards anarchy was a DA-ism that I thought pretty poor and which put me off the rest of the damn thing.

I’ll be back, but I think I needed a break, and I get the impression that I chose a good week to take that break.