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Crossword 130 – Robert Holmes
It is funny how themes emerge when you’re analysing data about a particular writer. Robert Holmes is, quite rightly, remembered for his outstanding contribution to Doctor Who, and for being right up there with Terrance Dicks. Look a bit further and there are common threads – valuable substances being fought Read more…
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Crossword 129 – Friends & Allies
The Doctor has had many companions but he wouldn’t get far with just their help alone. On his travels, he has met helpful people and collaborators with whom he has joined forces to defeat alien invaders and malevolent shenanigans. This week’s crossword focuses on those helpful souls who lend a Read more…
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Crossword 128 – Capitalists
Good science fiction reflects the world in which we live, so it is perhaps inevitable that some of the antagonists in Doctor Who will be big companies and greedy CEOs out to bleed the proles dry. Famously, Robert Holmes wrote The Sun Makers as a way to stick to the Read more…
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Crossword 127 – Doctors & Nurses
Paging Doctor Who! Our favourite Time Lord has said he’s “a Doctor of everything” (including cheese making), but he also studied medicine under Joseph Lister in Glasgow. According to River Song, he’s the reason we have the word “Doctor” in the first place, to mean “wise man” or “healer”. This Read more…
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Crossword 126 – Halloween
BOO! Did I scare you? It’s Halloween again – one of your erstwhile compiler’s favourite times of the year. It is the annual excuse to curl up on crisp Autumnal nights with a glass of something nice to watch a good old horror movie or two… or a spooky Doctor Read more…