Sentence examples for picaroon from inspiring English sources

His first puzzle arrived so fully formed that some solvers thought this must be a new pseudonym for an old hand, but no: Picaroon is James Brydon, who also sets as Lavatch in the Spectator, and with the same nom de guerre in some astonishing Listener puzzles.

Picaroon has been setting for the Guardian since March 2012.

For similar reasons, I like the meaning of Picaroon as a rogue or someone who lives by his wits, and the reference to the rascally heroes of picaresque literature.

Of the home team, Arachne, Enigmatist, Nutmeg, Pasquale, Picaroon, Puck and Rufus have each set one of the 12 puzzles.

In last week's Guardian puzzle by Picaroon (you can Meet the Setter here), many clues referred to eighteen down … 18d Back continental way: tolerant, embracing a unionist (8) [ a word for a road ("way") in a continental language, spelled backwards + synonym for "tolerant" around ("embracing") A ] [ RUE backwards + OPEN around A ] … that is, EUROPEAN.

On this principle, he questioned a clue in a recent Picaroon puzzle (No 27,016, 3 down), where 'Fully exhaust and dismiss old fellow (3,3,2)' was intended to produce the solution RUN OUT OF. 'Run-out' is obviously one way of getting dismissed at cricket, but how, he objected, are you expected to know that in this clue O = old and F = fellow.

Picaroons, Seacliff Resort Villa, Ross Craig; (876) 487615876

(Mr. Maire has since opened Picaroons, a cliffside restaurant in the nearby hamlet of Ross Craig, where he serves a similar menu).