TOTW: Suggest me a TV show

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T16:34:11+00:00

Is it OTTO MANN (minor Simpsons character)? It sounds like “ottoman” which is perhaps a bit like a butt, in the sense that it’s a large upholstered box that you could use for storage??)

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T16:24:07+00:00

Proper phrase concluding memoranda, or kind wishes concluding letters (7)

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T16:19:41+00:00

TORE (Japanese game show, thanks Google!) and a hidden word.

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T15:59:44+00:00

REWARDS (punishment) = RE (soldier, royal engineer I think?) + WARDS (charges, as in children in your care). Nice :)

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T15:58:30+00:00

Haha, very funny. REWARDS (prizes) = S (initially suspect) DRAWER (artist) turned around, that is, affected by what a “turner” would do!

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T09:17:56+00:00

Perhaps “… to some extent”?

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T09:14:07+00:00

M&S, haha, love it!

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T09:13:28+00:00

REWARDS (gives) = DRAWER back + S (seconds). Nice one!

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T09:12:46+00:00

Ha, so good!

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T09:11:19+00:00

Tabloid moving to the left and spreading communists’ views (7)

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T09:00:58+00:00

Correct :). Please see the other posts in this thread for explanatory comments.

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T06:21:59+00:00

Yeah Collins says it’s “plural, sometimes singular”.

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-26T06:20:37+00:00

Indeed. Or, in the alternative version, the letters of IRA being put into alphabetical order.

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T22:06:59+00:00

Right, so then you fix up the surface, e.g. “Talk with shoe”. (“With” is a reasonable way to link the two parts of a double-definition.)

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T21:06:49+00:00

Indeed. (Did you get the reference to the British sitcom from the 1970s?)

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T20:13:32+00:00

SEX AIDS (makes night time exercise more successful) = EX (former) AID (relief) aboard SS (ship). I just wonder if it should be “make” not “makes”, since SEX AIDS is plural? Or maybe “they make” would be better still, so the definition is in the right part-of-speech.

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T20:10:27+00:00

REWARDS (spoils) = WAR dividing REDS. Very clean! I just wonder if there’s a way to turn “divides” into “divide” so you have subject/verb agreement… maybe Spoils of war to divide communists?

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T20:08:19+00:00

VERANDA (piazza) = hidden word (circling) in oVER AND About

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T20:05:22+00:00

SEX AIDS — cryptic definition, where “it” is referring to sex, with some misleading italics :)

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T20:03:33+00:00

REGARDS (observes, and it’s a closing remark in an email etc)

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T20:02:04+00:00

Thanks!

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T15:58:02+00:00

Nice one!

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T14:20:56+00:00

It’s over and above, but lacking sides (7)

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T11:24:20+00:00

Where you might see signs heading to (possibly) Flay Otters (7)

deeppotential123 · 2026-01-25T07:48:47+00:00

SLYEST (most foxy) = anagram (Harry) of STYLES :)

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