The 2021 StJohn PB Christmas Crossword (Est. 2006) – politicalbetting.com
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Thanks for the crossword @stjohn and hope you have a good Christmas.
Merry Christmas everybody!
ROBERT WALPOLE - anagram (indicated by corrupts) of “all power” around (without) “OBE” (honour) “Rt” (right). R (OBE + RT) WALPOLE.
Baron John Dalberg-Acton stated, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are always bad men.
BINGO - Bing (Crosby, crooner) by- (next to) “O” (election’s penultimate letter). Bing O.
Bingo is what a winner declares when playing the game Bingo.
The Crosby by-election in 1981 was the first electoral success of the newly formed SDP and was won by Shirley Williams.
EEC - part of Gr(EEC)e.
Off to breakfast, Merrie Xmas one and all
P)EELMerry Christmas from downtown East London.
The PB Christmas Crossword reminds us for all the uncertainties of life, there are some things on which we can surely rely.
I shall however swerve attempting to resolve that puzzle and spend some time on tomorrow's racing which has a number of tricky little conundrums to resolve not least the King George at sunny Sunbury.
EEL - (P)eel (PM, Robert Peel, without his starting letter).
Thanks for the crossword
Happy Christmas.
Can't do any crossword, so I'm refocussing to my Christmas boiled heggs.
LOSER - Los (the Spanish) ER (Queen. Elizabeth Regina).
BERLIN WALL - anagram (indicated by, in disarray) of Blair L (left) New L (Labour’s leadership)
ISIS - aims aims with alternative letters rejected.
CROSSBENCH - Cross (angry) + bench (substitute, as a verb).
Another place here is The House of Lords.
How did everyone get on with the turkey shortage that was going to bring the UK to its knees?
I did my traditional "filling in the corners" run around Morrisons at teatime yesterday, and they were selling off the last three dozen turkeys, geese and ducks at 75% off. The lady in front of me had phones around her friends and had 7 in the trolley, plus staff discount.
WHO’S WHO - S (first letter of Spin) taken in by Who Who (doctors) . WHO (S) WHO.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to all PBers and their loved ones!
ROCK LAYER - anagrams of “Clarke” and “Roy” indicated by worked with.
CANON LAW - Con (Conservative) + Law (PM, Andrew Bonar Law) with the letters A and N (new) introduced. [C (a n) on] Law
Canon Law is a set of ecclesiastical rules that is enforced by church ministers.
My guess is the latter. To become great you need to push the boundaries and be unconstrained by convention. Of course not everyone bad becomes great, but it is necessary not sufficient (for a given definition of bad)
Overclaim?
Tis a word that fits meaning and clue, but not an elegant one.
Lots of other good over- words - overcooks, overbaked, overtrust.
HAIN - (C)hain, meaning cable with the first letter removed (polled, as in lopped the top off).
Lord Peter HAIN is a Labour grandee.
And retiring whilst I'm ahead.
Trust = Trussed
OVERTRUST - saying or sounding like “over trussed”, describing e.g. a chicken that’s overly prepared for the oven, with the wings and legs tied too much or too tight.
Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal was said to be “oven-ready”.
C(aught) in A LIE
ALICE - c (caught) inside ‘a lie”. A LI (C) E
Alice in Wonderland attended, so was a member of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.
IRREGULAR - R (resistance) after “regul” (luger [weapon - German pistol] letters return) splits or divides IRA (militants). [IR (REGUL) A] + R
KIER - a type of vat. Sounds like (announcement of) Keir (Starmer, current Labour leader) or (Hardie, the first Labour leader).
tributesplayers for the Boxing Day Test.Ashes: England-Australia Melbourne Test - tourists make four changes for Boxing Day
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59789912
LORD PRIVY SEAL - Lord (sounds like “laud” meaning praise - when spoken by a dictator, or someone dictating), + privy (can, toilet), + seal (secure).
According to Wikipedia, it's the 5th of the Great Offices of State in the United Kingdom. Current role holder is The Rt Hon Baroness Evans of Bowes Park.
Merry Christmas to all PBers, whatever the colour of your rosette.
Santa left 2 positive cases this morning.
Sadly there is no word 'chemp' so I can't extend that series of puns...
Sorry to hear that. I hope it’s not too serious.
I’ve been looking at the crossword for too long. My first thought was that you’d received a decent quantity of fine wine!
What's the fourth?
..to find the tray you've selected is just half an inch too large...
Mind you. They'd get an eleven out of the spectators to beat us.
To this day he's proud he didn't drop the turkey, and fortunately the slippers he was wearing saved him from the worst. His foot still has scars to this day.
So, one thing you don't want with Christmas dinner: roast foot!
Fortunately this year we're got a small Turkey, nine pounds. So it's not too bad in terms of getting it in and out of the oven.
Merry Christmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nT7JGZMbtM
Have to say as well, this BBC correspondent doing the commentary is really, really good. Clear, concise, knowledgeable, calm and also a perfect voice for it with excellent diction.
Still musing on the King George but inclining towards FRODON to follow up last year's success. Available at 7s in a couple of places.
If you've not already assumed I flirt with insanity (I am very nearly Barking), I've also had a tenner on England to win the third test at 11/2. A bit counter intuitive maybe but the old "backs to the wall" narrative comes to the fore.
Back to the crossword: 1 Down: Reaganonics? Anagram of Cameron plus is and ag = against.
20 Across Usage New York is in US Times = Ages
21 Down Sun up?
The deployment would be awesome in 4K. If it works.....
Only ever had one, and that was a fairly mild shoe rubbing which ended up as an ulcer with a need for a minor op. Since I had an epidural I got to watch. V. interesting.
You're absolutely right - 3/1 is ridiculous.