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Ramanujan Corrects Hardy · Saturday, 5 September 2026 · Ahhhh!
September 2026
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Town where a letter from India found the right reader in 1913 (9)
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Eternity, near enough (4)
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Where the pews are, in most churches (4)
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Like the omen Hardy hoped 1729 wasn't (3)
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Out ___ the blue, as a stranger's theorems arrived (2)
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Like the acid behind gout (4)
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Go wrong, as even geniuses sometimes do (3)
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Biscuit containers that somehow always hold sewing kits (4)
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Therefore, in a proof (2)
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Crossing it in 1914 took a mother's blessing, the story goes (3)
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'___, it is a very interesting number', the patient replied (2)
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Secret number at the ATM (3)
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'Dull ___ ditchwater' (2)
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Amuses, or reroutes (7)
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Hardy's Putney ride, its number 'rather a dull one' (4)
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Faraway, as a look out of a classroom window (6)
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Like a hatter, or hopping (3)
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Fan-shaped river land; Ramanujan grew up in the Kaveri's (5)
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___ brûlée (5)
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Today's version of a letter to a don (5)
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Zero, to anyone reading out a phone number (2)
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Genius ___ fraud? (what Hardy had to decide) (2)
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Ramanujan's 'lost' one turned up in a Trinity College library in 1976 (8)
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1, 729, 1000 and 1728, which pair up to make 1729 two ways (5)
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Chennai, when a Port Trust clerk posted his theorems to England (6)
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'___ that as it may' (2)
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Twelve, to 144 (4)
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'The Man Who Knew ___' (2015 biopic starring Dev Patel) (8)
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What's new on the Serengeti? (4)
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What a good teacher lends every student (3)
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Think again, as Hardy did about a stranger's wild formulas (10)
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What Hardy paid a sick friend, arriving by cab (5)
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Research field, like number theory (4)
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Star that flares up out of nowhere (4)
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What 1729 isn't, being 7 × 13 × 19 (5)
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Old flame (2)
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Totted up (5)
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Golden ___ (about 1.618) (5)
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Sleep phase with darting eyes (3)
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Dash with a French accent (4)
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Barley made ready for Horlicks or whisky (4)
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How a bull might run in a china shop (4)
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Male swan, perhaps on the Cam (3)
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Greek letter after pi (3)