Mental Mondays #5 Crossword & Puzzles by Mark

Mark is the designer of this week’s tricky prize crossword. This week’s test is a mixture of random bike related general knowledge with a few cryptic …

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Mental Mondays #5 Crossword & Puzzles by Mark

Bah, stuck on 8 across and 13 down. Suspect I’ll kick myself on the latter.

…although, weirdly, the crossword grid and the clues seem to have changed?!

anyhow, it’s the forum powerhouse and the great annual tyre that are befuddling me.

Whoop, much easier than last week. Failed to finish that one.

I’m stuck on the annual tyre thing too…

Woohoo! I’m a winner! (From last week!) 😁

Ah ha! Got them all. Really should’ve had the Forum thing more easily, and the tyres one just needs thinking through. Quite a lot in my case.

Actually finished one for a change.

Now on this week’s … all done apart from forum powerhouse …

15 minutes to do all but one, followed by an hour of Close Encounters of the Third Kind style mania while I ate lunch and got back to work thinking about the last clue.
That feeling when the penny drops though!

Stuck on the orienteering one. Not sure if it’s cryptic like the powerhouse & annual tyre clues or the actual name of an event.

The orienteering one is a bit cryptic. Think of an outdoor clothing brand sponsor.

You will kick yourself if I tell you what the annual tyre answer is 🙂

The orienteering one is a bit cryptic. Think of an outdoor clothing brand sponsor.

Cheers- is this a new type of clue- lateral cryptic?

You will kick yourself if I tell you what the annual tyre answer is

Alternative clue- 365 used condoms

The orienteering one is a bit cryptic. Think of an outdoor clothing brand sponsor.

Still stuck on this one.

Tyres finally dropped with a loud thud.

Still stuck on the orienteering one.

Orienteering one and the not grumpy one for me. Doing my head in….

It really is annoying that once you have completed it you can never see it again.