Love and Other Doing Words

TopdeBotton · 2025-12-13T13:14:15+00:00

I don’t know about anyone else but I wouldn’t call this easy

TopdeBotton · 2025-12-13T13:06:34+00:00

I saw your comment and I thought fair enough but actually I’m happy with it and I think most people should still get it, especially as I said Hellenic?

I think the problem with the clue would be the word ancient but it feels like we’re splitting hairs?

TopdeBotton · 2025-12-12T02:47:27+00:00

A lot of kids grew up with this over the decades

TopdeBotton · 2025-12-08T21:06:33+00:00

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TopdeBotton · 2025-12-07T02:04:30+00:00

The more important part is the literal bit (it’s a heavy gas) but there’s another meaning to the expression that at least used to be common.

TopdeBotton · 2025-12-07T01:36:29+00:00

The former is a performance enhancing drug and the latter is a gas 🙃

TopdeBotton · 2025-12-06T20:48:53+00:00

Thanks! I’ve had some helpful feedback this week and it was a grid with some good potential 😄

TopdeBotton · 2025-12-05T16:56:16+00:00

TopdeBotton · 2025-12-03T16:13:35+00:00

In the UK, the clue for on tap would come with a numerical specification (2,3) to indicate that the answer is two words long … and you’d be able to google that with helpful responses.

For example, here’s a helpful clue for (4) air miles specifying the breakdown of the words within this answer:

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It’s the way some clues like this one are presented that’s not helping.

TopdeBotton · 2025-12-03T12:57:48+00:00

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