Category Archives: DA Reports

Here be another DA.

Report on it here, and forever hold your spoiler peace until Monday.

Update: A fun one even though I didn’t get 5 across:

MOTLEY CRUE was classic, and I thoroughly enjoyed LEGIBLE, EVEREST and METH LABS. My SE corner suffered from not having heard of a NULLA NULLA.

One that’s a bit back to normal from DA this week.

Report about it here (although no spoilers until Monday)

Update: A little tough:

Happy days for another DA this week.

Talk about it here.

Update: Ridiculously tough:

I don’t think I’ve ever worked harder to get DA clues out, but I just had to figure out the theme even if I didn’t finish the crossword. I don’t think the theme necessarily made the crossword hard; some of the clues on their own were ridiculously tough.

AMPOL, for instance, featured a strange definition, a very difficult but very amusing synonym and the theme. In combination, a very tough one to crack, as were many others.

DA is just about ready to make your weekend with a thrilling crossword.

Talk about it here.

Update: A tale of two crosswords:

First half of this was a breeze, and then things took a turn for the difficult. OWNED and TOODLES were gold, but goddamn FORMULAIC and CELADON were near impossible.

Do you reckon those with the initials DA are more likely than others to become district attorneys? Or be devotees of dadaism?

Report on your DA experience here (no spoilers until Monday).

Update: Jolly fun:

RC and I smashed through this one before resorting to hints and tips on this blog WHACKO, OAKUM and, embarrassingly, PHANTOM.

Much fun.

February 2012 comes and DA is still serving up the goods.

Here’s where you talk about the goods (but without spoilers until Monday)

Update: A tough one:

RC and I ended up doing this while at a trivia night. We didn’t get too far, and found some difficulty here and there.

Is DA Australia’s greatest cultural institution? Perhaps after AFL football? Perhaps after Warne’s bowling and Bradman’s batting? Australian of the year Geoffrey Rush would probably agree.

Anyway, here’s where you explain why DA is or isn’t Australia’s greatest cultural institution.

Update: A fun, tough one:

An enjoyable one that RC and I combined forces on. We failed in the southwest corner, which I think everyone here had the most trouble with, but had some fun everywhere else.

It’s DA for your fine selves.

Spread the love.

Update: A fun one:

The general consensus seemed to rate this as reasonably easy, but I gotta say I found it quite tough. Didn’t get much more than halfway through before referring to the solutions.

A fun theme, though.

It’s a Friday the 13th DA for Sydneysiders — a horrorific spectacular that bodes not so well.

Perhaps it will be full of references to Melbourne.

Update: A tough one:

I bounded through this effortlessly until about two-thirds of the way through when I hit the wall, and I really didn’t get very far past that wall.

A good one I thought nonetheless.

DA brings in the new year this week with what I imagine to be a corker.

Celebrate the new year in style.

Update: Hard going:

RC, JC, OS, NS and I met at Station Pier in Port Melbourne for the annual Greek Orthodox blessing of the waters. It’s hallowed ground, the second place my parents, OS and NS, set foot on Australian soil (the boat landed in Fremantle first), and it was RC who stepped up to the plate and dove into the waters in pursuit of the wooden cross tossed into the waters by the Melbourne’s Greek Orthodox Archbishop.

All it needed was another twenty or so metres and it would have been the unbaptised, non-Greek and irreligious RC receiving the Archbishop’s blessing, but as it was, a strong-finishing third was an admirable effort.

We decamped to RC’s lounge room and stumbled through the DA. Really, we only got about halfway through before we called it a day. It was a poor effort on our parts, but it was a fine day nonetheless.