Mardi Gras! Fat Tuesday! Shrove Tuesday…

Today’s theme was… today! Bonus points for referencing the Rex Parade.

Had tons of fun writing this one – yet again as it happens.

“The Lure and Legend of Gold”

Mr and Mrs Gold, a retired couple in 2021, are making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday whilst doing cryptic crosswords together. At the same time their 30 year old counterparts (Peter and Donna) are in the 1987 Rex Parade in New Orleans. Whenever Mr and Mrs Gold get the answer to a crossword clue it is matched up to the storyline of the antics of the 1987 Mardi Gras where Donna ends up going topless and accidentally covering Peter with squirty cream whilst he is trapped on a flotilla of dancing German transvestites brandishing an enormous bratwurst…. 🙂

NB The Rex Parade in 1987 was entitled “The Lure and Legend of Gold”