Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[Ellena]

"4 May 1931, 1 down: Suitable dish for a snooker player. 6 letters, 'P' in 1st, 'T' in 3rd, 'G' in 5th."

a shoot in the dark : "potage" ??

[snookersfun]

25 March 1939, 4 across: Stockpot????

[The Statman]

Congratulations snookersfun×2, Davis greatest and Ellena.

The anwers are Potage, Potters, Potluck and Stockpot.

So here is the Scoreboard after round 82:

..1 . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..3 . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..4 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..5 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..6 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Mitsuko
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . The Statman
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . chasmmi
10 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . berolina
11 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
12 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Ellena
13. . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . Obligation
14 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
15 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
16 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . April madness
17 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
18 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Hegeland

(A reminder that there are no tied positiions, you move right to the top of your new points total.)

ROUNDS EIGHTY-THREE to EIGHTY-SEVEN

The next five Times crossword clues will appear shortly.

[chasmmi]

Quick someone ask a question before he coes back with more blimming crossword puzzles.

[snookersfun]

lol Chasmmi. (You're second good one of today)
might be worse, could be Obli asking a question.

[Cyril]

lol Chasmmi. (You're second good one of today)
might be worse, could be Obli asking a question.

Or me. lol

[davis_greatest]

Or me. lol

Quick Statman! Before Cyril asks one!

[davis_greatest]

Too late, Statman!

ROUND EIGHTY THREE

Here are some Daily Sport crossword clues that included the wod 'snooker' in them. See if you can decrypt them:

4 May 2008, 3 down: Snooker players like to eat half of this root vegetable. 3 letters, 'O' in 2nd.

27 July 2012, 15 across: Opposite of the top of a snooker table. 3 letters, 'T' in 3rd.

13 January 2019, 4 down: Snooker players cook in this dish.. 3 letters, 'P' in 1st.

22 March 2021, 7 across: Don't smoke this drug while playing snooker. 3 letters, no letters yet

One point for the first person to correctly give ALL four answers.

If one remains unanswered after a reasonable time, I will give a couple more letters.

[chasmmi]

At the half chance there are real points available:

3 down = POT
15 across = POT
4 Down = POT
7 across = POT

[April madness]

Pot, Dge?

:mean:

[davis_greatest]

Congratulations, chasmmi. Just beat April Madness. Astonishing performance! Have a real point.

So here is the Scoreboard after round 83:

..1 . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..3 . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..4 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..5 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..6 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Mitsuko
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . The Statman
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . chasmmi
10 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . berolina
11 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
12 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Ellena
13. . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . Obligation
14 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
15 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
16 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . April madness
17 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
18 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Hegeland

(A reminder that there are no tied positions, you move right to the top of your new points total.)

ROUNDS EIGHTY-FOUR to EIGHTY-EIGHT

Over to The Statman.

[April madness]

wasn't trying anyway. so nice company at the bottom of table

[chasmmi]

Huzzah!!!

Now I have my real point and thus boosting my meteoric rise up the table in recent days Statman can now post his crossword clues with my blessing.

I bet he still remembers buying the papers too when he should have ben studying for his GCE's.

[chasmmi]

Just one more point and I may be eligible for SBQ Pot Black.

[davis_greatest]

Huzzah!!!

Now I have my real point and thus boosting my meteoric rise up the table in recent days Statman can now post his crossword clues with my blessing.

I bet he still remembers buying the papers too when he should have ben studying for his GCE's.

I was wondering how Statman found these questions. Statman, is there some electronic search that goes that far back to search through The Times??? Or did you really read through every crossword?