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21 December, 2007
Extrowords 106: Generalissimo 76
Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
6 across: Fatal weakness (8,4)
19 across: Rolling Stones classic (12)
4 down: Massacre tool (8)
Created by Amit Varma
17 December, 2007
Extrowords 105: Generalissimo 75
Sample clues
5 across: Robbie Robertson song about Richard Manuel (6,5)
2 down: F5 on a keyboard (7)
10 across: Lionel Richie hit (5)
3 down: ALTAIR, for example (5)
16 down: The problem with Florida 2000 (5)
Created by Amit Varma
13 December, 2007
Extrowords 104: Generalissimo 74
Sample clues
6 across: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s breakthrough film (6,6)
19 across: Soft leather shoe (8)
7 down: Randroids, for example (12)
12 down: First American World Chess Champion (7)
17 down: Circle of influence (5)
Created by Amit Varma
11 December, 2007
Extrowords 103: Generalissimo 74
Sample clues
14 across: FDR’s baby (3,4)
1 down: A glitch in the Matrix? (4,2)
4 down: Slanted character (6)
5 down: New Year’s venue in New York (5,6)
16 down: Atmosphere of melancholy (5)
Created by Amit Varma
10 December, 2007
Extrowords 102: Generalissimo 73
Sample clues
5 across: The US president’s bird (3,5,3)
11 down: Group once known as the Quarrymen (7)
10 across: Cavalry sword (5)
19 across: Masonic ritual (5,6)
1 down: Pioneer of Ostpolitik (6)
Created by Amit Varma
22 November, 2007
Extrowords 101: Generalissimo 72
Sample clues
11 across: Chandigarh’s is 0172 (3,4)
21 across: He’s a loser, baby (4)
1 down: Garment meant to shape the torso (6)
12 down: It’s slogan: “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit” (8)
18 down: Noise made by badminton players? (6)
Created by Amit Varma
16 November, 2007
Extrowords 100: Generalissimo 71
Sample clues
17 across: Beckham speciality (4,4)
4 down: Havana speciality (5)
19 across: Infamous 1988 commercial against Michael Dukakis (9,4)
11 down: Precisely (2,3,3)
13 down: City infamously ransacked by the Japanese in 1937 (7)
Created by Amit Varma
13 November, 2007
Extrowords 99: Generalissimo 70
Sample clues
5 down: Torso covering (6)
7 down: Government by rogues (12)
15 across: eBay speciality (7)
18 across: Demonic (8)
20 across: Common language (6,6)
Created by Amit Varma
12 November, 2007
Extrowords 98: Generalissimo 69
Sample clues
6 across: Franchise revived by Frank Miller (6)
13 across: What Keanu Reeves and Zayed Khan have in common (5)
18 across: What Frank Sinatra and George Clooney have in common (6,6)
19 across: Dosa mix, for example (6)
2 down: Green, in a non-environmental way (7)
Created by Amit Varma
16 August, 2007
Extrowords 97: Generalissimo 68
Sample clues
18 across: Makoto Hagiwara and David Jung both claim to have invented it (7,6)
1 down: French impressionist who rejected that term (5)
3 down: Artificial surface used for playing hockey (9)
7 down: The sequel to Iliad (7)
12 down: Adipose tissue (4,3)
Created by Amit Varma
10 August, 2007
Extrowords 96: Generalissimo 67
Sample clues
19 across: French anthropologist after whom a part of the brain is named (5)
2 down: The boundary between Italy and Gaul (7)
7 down: Pasta cooked to be firm (2,5)
14 down: Decoration with fragments of colored glass (6)
16 down: 14th century Japanese spy (5)
Created by Amit Varma
09 August, 2007
Extrowords 95: Generalissimo 66
Sample clues
8 across: What a timely tailor ensures? (1,6,2,4)
2 down: Rinus Michels’s strategy (5,8)
6 down: What the Kelo controversy was all about (7,6)
11 down: Boxing mouthpiece (8)
14 down: Business accessory that is rumoured to affect a man’s virility (6)
Created by Amit Varma
06 August, 2007
Extrowords 94: Generalissimo 65
Sample clues
1 across: Sizzlin’ Sally, Old Smokey, Gruesome Gertie etc (8,5)
18 across: Middle-earth humanoid (3)
20 across: Absurd playwright (6,7)
5 down: The cruellest month (5)
8 down: He was forced to clothe his Maja (4)
Created by Amit Varma
02 August, 2007
Extrowords 93: Generalissimo 64
Sample clues
1 across: A detective’s container? (4)
11 across: Monopoly (3-5, 4)
18 across: A high price (2,3,3,1,3)
22 across: Bradman’s was 99.94 (7)
2 down: Internet magazine sold by Microsoft to the Washington Post Company (5)
Created by Amit Varma
01 August, 2007
Extrowords 92: Generalissimo 63
Sample clues
4 across: Where sexual inclinations hide? (6)
2 down: Red, Yellow, Green (7,6)
5 down: The currency of the internet (5)
6 down: Prestidigitation (7,2,4)
7 down: Venetian Renaissance artist whose last painting was the Pietà (6)
Created by Amit Varma
31 July, 2007
Extrowords 91: Generalissimo 62
Sample clues
5 across: Xanthus’s slave on Samos (5)
15 across: The climax of the NFL (5,4)
19 across: Be patient! (3,2,4,4)
11 down: What Gmail or Yahoo don’t charge you (7)
16 down: Greek gateway that sounds like an unwanted guest (5)
Created by Amit Varma
30 July, 2007
Extrowords 90: Generalissimo 61
Sample clues
9 across: Now that email’s here, he doesn’t even ring once (7)
15 across: Where Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln confer (5,8)
19 across: Socrates’s famous student (5)
5 down: Site of Michelangelo’s greatest triumph (7,6)
6 down: Sex appeal (5)
Created by Amit Varma
28 July, 2007
Extrowords 89: Generalissimo 60
Sample clues
1 across: Expressionless (7)
13 across: He became king when he was nine months old, and went mad later in life (5,3,5)
18 across: What a cricket umpire’s raised finger indicates (3)
20 across: Device for measuring radiation (6,7)
11 down: Tush (3)
Created by Amit Varma
26 July, 2007
Extrowords 88: Generalissimo 59
Sample clues
15 across: The only Beatles song recorded outside Britain (4,3,2,4)
3 down: The opposition’s ministry (6,7)
5 down: Simultaneously (2,3,4,4)
6 down: Kind of salwar (5)
11 down: Relating to touch (7)
Created by Amit Varma
25 July, 2007
Extrowords 87: Generalissimo 58
Sample clues
4 across: South Pacific version of the lungi (6)
14 across: Ancient forecasters (11)
19 down: Legendary editor of the Economist (6,7)
2 down: One-time head of the Genovese crime family (5,8)
6 down: Offerings of peace (5,8)
Created by Amit Varma
Bombastic Little Creep
Question by Amit Varma
This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?
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