Another Crossword Competition
Flushed with success after winning a prize in the Saturday Independent crossword competition (even if it is yet another dictionary) and flying high at No. 6 in the Azed Annual Honours List I thought I’d have another go at setting a puzzle for my readers. There were some complaints that my last crossword was too difficult, so here is a slightly simpler one for you:
Across Down
1 Current symbol for ego? 1 One visual organ, we hear
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October 24, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Errr. Let’s see. 1 across, 1 letter.
Is the answer “U”?
(Ego means “I”, and if you are saying it currently, it’s you, and the letter U sounds like “you”.
That’s 1 across done. Now 1 down.
If you look at an organ – the musical instrument – as you listen to it, you notice pipes, and pipes often have U-bends.)
Do I win a prize?
October 24, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Yes, entirely appropriately considering how correct your answers are, you win this week’s prize: dinner for two, with Mike Disney.
October 24, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Oh. My diary seems completely full.
October 24, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Surely you can clear a space for Mike.
October 24, 2011 at 4:56 pm
I’ll try my best.
October 24, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Argh! It doesn’t have π-rotational symmetry.
October 24, 2011 at 1:20 pm
That’s not all it doesn’t have.
October 24, 2011 at 1:48 pm
‘Current’ symbol, “I” like it.