Crossword 761 answers and explanations

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24th March, 2012

A place to shun? I sometimes envy British crossword setters for the treasury of local references they can play with – rivers such as the Ouse, the Taw, the Exe and the Dee, towns like Clun, Diss and Deal, all well suited to use in anagrams and charades, and places such as Kent that everyone knows is in the South-East, hence Kent can stand for SE. We simply don't have the same range of local geographical references here. The Catlins might be the SE but not in any well-known way, and there's not much fun to be had from East Cape being in the NE, or North Cape being in the N. Maori ...

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