The weather isn’t the only thing that’s been heating up this summer. July saw some interesting developments in the world … Continued
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Word-lovers abound in the Collins Dictionary community, and so we’re running an interview series with some of the ones we’re
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From simple black and white word exercises to the most masterful, multi-layered of cryptic constructs, crosswords entertain, educate, comfort, and
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It’s thought that we acquire pretty much the whole of our working vocabularies by the time we’re 18. We can
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A good cryptic clue contains three elements: ● a precise definition ● a fair subsidiary indication (wordplay) ● nothing else
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Running from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2014, the 101st Tour de France will be made up of
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I once wrote this about camping, having been forced to undertake the activity for the first time by an editor
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