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Meet Rum’un, the Tasmania Devils’ new club mascot.

What’s a Rum’un? How this new AFL mascot got its name

Meet a monster with meaning in every snarl.

  • David Astle

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Putting paradise to the sword

When ratings are the last resort.

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Good diplomacy, or just papering over the cracks?

While in Dubbo, the uke prevails over the ute.

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The crossword clue is poetry to pore over and savour.

Feeling puzzled? This is how crosswords soothe us in hectic times

I can monster a cryptic before my beer goes flat, but what’s the hurry?

  • David Astle
Tricky clue

This clue stumped our Mini Crossword testers. Can you answer it?

Tricky words can bring a whole puzzle to a screeching halt. I knew this one had missed the mark.

  • Liam Runnalls
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Ten clues. Twenty-five squares. Welcome to your daily dose of addictive, brain-teasing fun.

  • Lynne Cairncross
Veruca Salt, patron saint of spoilt – or should that be spoiled – brats.

Is the brat spoilt or spoiled? The debate rages on

Few questions in the English language rankle like the mess of spoil.

  • David Astle
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No fanfare for the master plan

One reader is officially brassed-off.

Malcolm Turnbull and Moira Schitt

Pusillanimous? Turnbull’s $50 retort is a soundbite for the ages

Trump might be a bully, but Malcolm Turnbull’s got sesquipedalian loquaciousness on his side.

  • David Astle

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