Pardon my French! This week we will give the solution kindly provided by user Peter Tompkin: It is based on snooker balls – each word is associated with a colour (Moulin ROUGE, Baton ROUGE, Bete NOIR, Gilet JAUNE) so substituting the values in gives (7+1)/2 + 1 = 5 = blue ball Hence “Cordon” should do it, as in: Cordon Bleu!
VE Bank Holiday Crossword – it’s not ALL Greek to me! Something completely different for the Bank Holiday Weekend! At first sight you might think we have made an error with the letter counts, but the GCHQ geniuses mean exactly what they say! This is a crossword with a twist – each cell contains exactly one letter, but 38 characters are used in all! We will be back on Sunday with another challenge! (and a hint for this one, but … Read on
VE Bank Holiday Crossword Something completely different for the Bank Holiday Weekend! At first sight you might think we have made an error with the letter counts, but the GCHQ geniuses mean exactly what they say! This is a crossword with a twist – each cell contains exactly one letter, but 38 characters are used in all! We will be back on Sunday with another challenge! (and a hint for this one, but not the solution – you will have … Read on
Pardon my French (it can get a bit colourful)! Not sure how to rate this one, but given some of the anxiety caused by last week, perhaps it is best to call it a 2! Once you have solved it, post your time and solution on the Forum, we will delete the solution and post the time if you have it right.