The DA Trippers http://datrippers.com When only a DA cryptic will do... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:32:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Meanjin and DA http://datrippers.com/2010/03/09/meanjin-and-da/ http://datrippers.com/2010/03/09/meanjin-and-da/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:31:35 +0000 AS http://datrippers.com/?p=723 No DA Retrospectively this week because of the Meanjin DA special.

DA seems quite excited about it, as am I, so go ahead and have a crack.

And because it's not in the spirit of the competition, no spoilers here until April 1st, which is when the competition is over.

]]> http://datrippers.com/2010/03/09/meanjin-and-da/feed/ 4 DA Makes My Head Spin on the 5/6th of March, 2010 http://datrippers.com/2010/03/05/da-makes-my-head-spin-on-the-56th-of-march-2010/ http://datrippers.com/2010/03/05/da-makes-my-head-spin-on-the-56th-of-march-2010/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:02:08 +0000 AS http://datrippers.com/?p=718 Confused?

Have your confusions resolved here!

]]> http://datrippers.com/2010/03/05/da-makes-my-head-spin-on-the-56th-of-march-2010/feed/ 16 Scrumptious DA on 5/6th of March, 2010 http://datrippers.com/2010/03/05/scrumptious-da-on-56th-of-march-2010/ http://datrippers.com/2010/03/05/scrumptious-da-on-56th-of-march-2010/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:01:21 +0000 AS http://datrippers.com/?p=716 Awesomeness, humdrumness or crappiness?

You be the judge!

(No spoilers until Monday)1

Update: I just didn't do it:

I looked at for about ten minutes on Saturday, got nothing and never looked at it again.

I think I'm losing my DA mojo. Of  my usual DA partners, RC is in Rio and TH is about to head to NYC. Their absence might have something to do with it.

]]> http://datrippers.com/2010/03/05/scrumptious-da-on-56th-of-march-2010/feed/ 11 DA Retrospectively: 11th March, 2005 http://datrippers.com/2010/03/02/da-retrospectively-11th-march-2005/ http://datrippers.com/2010/03/02/da-retrospectively-11th-march-2005/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:18:53 +0000 AS http://datrippers.com/?p=713 More fun, this time from 2005:

]]> http://datrippers.com/2010/03/02/da-retrospectively-11th-march-2005/feed/ 26 Confusions from DA on 26/27th of Feb http://datrippers.com/2010/02/26/confusions-from-da-on-2627th-of-feb/ http://datrippers.com/2010/02/26/confusions-from-da-on-2627th-of-feb/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:40:01 +0000 AS http://datrippers.com/?p=709 Bamboozled? Perplexed?

Here's where you ask for help.

]]> http://datrippers.com/2010/02/26/confusions-from-da-on-2627th-of-feb/feed/ 17 DA Joy from the 26/27th of February http://datrippers.com/2010/02/26/da-joy-from-the-2627th-of-february/ http://datrippers.com/2010/02/26/da-joy-from-the-2627th-of-february/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:39:08 +0000 AS http://datrippers.com/?p=707 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.

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You know it will be a good one.

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Spoilers are expected, of course.

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(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.

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Enjoy!

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