Monthly Archives: February 2010

It’s time to fall in love all over again with DA.

Happy times.

(No spoilers in the comments till Monday.)

Update: I didn’t even look at the crossword this week.

RC in Rio has had me reminiscing of the times I spent there, where everything is in Portuguese, and English doesn’t have the same flavour.

Portuguese really is much prettier than Spanish or French or Italian — I recommend your learning it, and I thoroughly recommend your reading anything by Jorge Amado, Clarice Lispector and Machado de Assis, all of whom are largely unknown in the Anglophone world.

Your verdicts below.

(No spoilers till Monday)

Update: Fun, although I didn’t have enough time to do it:

The Dylan clue tipped me off, and then stuff got in the way and I didn’t have time to proceed.

Any good?

By the way, have a look at what’s in store in the next edition of Meanjin.

Until then, let us know your diagnosis on this week’s.

(No spoilers, though, till Monday)

Update: A decent crossword by all reports, and I say by all reports because I hardly did it:

Sadly, I only looked at this week’s for an hour or so and didn’t get so far in that hour.