Category: Announcement

As of today, we have reached 1000 active subscribers.    This site would not be what it is without today the participation and comments from our users.

The new Saturday Times Quick Cryptic puzzle starts this week and will appear Saturday January 6th.

I am very sad to have to announce that Jeff Marshall, who blogged on TfTT as TheRotter, passed away suddenly on December 13, 2023.

For the past few years I’ve helped our TfTT contributor St John Daly (aka astonvilla1) with test solving, editing and publishing his annual political crossword for the site politicalbetting.com (which he has been producing since 2006). I thought people here might enjoy it too. You can find the crossword here

We recently had a bot attack that created new accounts on TftT, but did not reply to the email for account confirmation.   Johninterred has fixed that problem, but we were left with a large number of inactive accounts, including genuine attempts dating back to May of 2022.  

Since these accounts are not confirmed, they are not of any use to anyone.   Accordingly, I have cleaned up our user accounts, and deleted all unconfirmed accounts created prior to November 1, 2023.    No one with a valid account should be impacted.

Thanks for everyone’s feedback on the Quick SNITCH (or “Quitch” as coined by Templar here, thanks Templar!). I’ve now added an initial set of Blog Solvers for this.  Blog Solvers’ times are taken from the … Read more “Blog solvers for the Quick SNITCH”

We have a new champion – our own Verlaine, aka Matthew Marcus! This post now includes links to the full results of each round.

There has been a change of arrangements for 21st October.

The Times seems to have a problem with its Puzzles page and Crossword club on the app and online at the moment. You can, however, print the puzzles from the ePaper. Navigate to the page with the crossword and click on the crossword. You should get a pop-up window with the ability to print the crossword.

[Update: The problem appears to have been fixed now].

Those of you not who did not see the ST blog last Sunday or are not signed up to receive Mick Hodgkins’s weekly newsletter may not know that a special cryptic puzzle was published on … Read more “Special extra puzzle now available…”