Month completed: January 2012

This is the penultimate year of the project, and although with 90-odd goals to go it looks unlikely I will complete everything (that trip to Antarctica is looking less and less likely), I am going to keep trying to knock off as many as I can.

This goal is the first of the year to be achieved, and one that I have been meaning to cross off for ages.

Before you ask, no I didn’t complete a cryptic crossword. They are just impossible (and I am always shocked if I can even get one answer when I try doing one of them).

What I completed was the General Knowledge crossword at the back of today’s Independent newspaper. Here’s the proof (click for the full-size version).

I will admit to using the Internet to try and find some of the answers, but I don’t see a problem with that. Unless you are some kind of super genius, are you really going to know the 3-letter word for an aromatic Eurasian shrub with small yellow flowers and evergreen leaves which yield an acrid volatile oil, formerly used medicinally?

I sure didn’t, but by researching to find the answers to the clues, I now know that it is rue, and my brain is full of many other pieces of general knowledge I wouldn’t have otherwise known.

Not sure I will be converting from sudoku anytime soon though.