Ben D Robinson
bendrobinson.bsky.social
Ben D Robinson
@bendrobinson.bsky.social
(Mostly amateur) musician, mathematician, tutor, coder, crossword setter, sports enthusiast, lefty dreamer, living in Warburton, Victoria, Australia.
It's pretty sad if you've reached the point where you're poring over the original Ximenes scriptures for indications of right and wrong. Why reduce an enjoyable intellectual pursuit to the level of pedantic faith? Surely better to work from some basic universal principles combined with common sense.
October 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Although I'm also posting my puzzles on MyCrossword, I continue to upgrade my own site.
Latest improvement: after you "reveal" a word, as well as the annotation for the word play being added to the clue, the definition within the clue gets highlighted.
(Only works on recent puzzles for now.)
October 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Yes - word play is "in Asia" with "done" replacing the capital A.

The extended definition is based on the fact that Indonesia's capital Jakarta is overcrowded and sinking, and as such the country is planning to build a new capital elsewhere.
October 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Those who don't hear so much about the relevant part of the world might not notice that this is actually an extended definition.

But then I think most people will need some internet help to make sense of parts of this puzzle, as is often the way with my historic anniversary themes.
October 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I'm traveling at the moment with an old laptop that's not quite up to exporting my puzzles to the MyCrossword site... normal service will resume next week!
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It can be hard work sometimes getting all your ducks in a row.
October 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Glad to see it came to fruition (and thanks for the acknowledgement). Quite a tease sharing the clue for 14a!
October 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I'm hoping your right. Since the parent of some of my maths tutoring students accidentally messaged that I was "the best meth teacher"
October 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
So is it true that autocorrect bases its guesses on your past usage?
October 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Those two reasons would sound like much the same thing to him. In his world view there are the good decent people who love him, and the rest are crazy Marxists, transgender society wreckers, and people from contemptible nations, creeds and races.
September 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM