Anax has started a new site for his puzzles – http://anaxcrosswords.wordpress.com/. He’s still getting to grips with the WordPress blogging service but there are already some puzzles to try, including a nice “crossword with no … Read more “New home for Anax puzzles”
Month: August 2010
24625 – doom and gloom dispelled by craftsmanship
Solving time: 10:37 A definite increase in difficulty since yesterday – rather than writing in the first two acrosses on first look and most of the intersecting downs, I had to wait until 10 across … Read more “24625 – doom and gloom dispelled by craftsmanship”
Times 24,624
If you’re wondering “Where’s Jimbo?”, we have swapped weeks for administrative reasons: and this has resulted in me getting probably the easiest puzzle I’ve blogged, so if he gets a stinker next week, I apologise … Read more “Times 24,624”
New Crossword Club site
As regular readers will know, I visited the News International offices in London yesterday to have a look at their new Crossword Club web-site. I’m not going to go into much detail because development versions … Read more “New Crossword Club site”
Times 24623 – A nice derangement of epitaphs!
Solving time: 23 minutes Music: Mozart, Piano Concerto K 537, Demus, Collegium Aureum This one was quite easy, and I put in many answers quickly at the beginning. I was prevented from having a really … Read more “Times 24623 – A nice derangement of epitaphs!”
Mephisto 2607: Paul McKenna
I didn’t get to blog this earlier in the day, and I will be able to write it up later tonight. Please note – if you (as I did, unknowing) printed this last Sunday, you … Read more “Mephisto 2607: Paul McKenna”
ST 4394 (Sun 15 Aug) – Illegalised
Solving time: 3:52 Yet another erroneous clue (for LEGALISED at 6dn), probably with a missing word, detracted from what was an otherwise mostly reasonable puzzle. * = anagram, “X” = sounds like ‘X’. Across 1 … Read more “ST 4394 (Sun 15 Aug) – Illegalised”
Saturday Times 24616 (14th August)
Solving time 8:55, another very easy Saturday puzzle that had a lot of multi-word answers that went in as soon as reading them. Having said that, there was nothing much wrong with the puzzle. The … Read more “Saturday Times 24616 (14th August)”
TLS Summer Acrostic (30th July)
No TLS crossword that week – it was replaced by an Acrostic puzzle, something they do about 4 times a year. In this puzzle, the answers to the clues are given coordinates and transferred to … Read more “TLS Summer Acrostic (30th July)”
New Crossword club site
The following announcement appeared on the Times Crossword Club bulletin board page yesterday: We are pleased to let you know that we are working on a new and improved Crossword Club site for our members, … Read more “New Crossword club site”