Category: Announcement

I thought it might be nice to have a thread where folk can chat about Saturday’s event without hijacking main puzzle threads and annoying those who weren’t there and wouldn’t have wanted to be. So … Read more “Championships 2016 chatter”

There will be a meeting for crossword setters and solvers at The George, Borough High Street, Southwark, London, SE1 1NH, coinciding with the annual Times Crossword Championship. The meeting will begin at 11:00 am on … Read more “Championship S & B”

Sorry everyone – I am trapped in Wales with minimal internet access and literally only just remembered what day it is. Would anyone be able to rustle up a quick blog for today’s at incredibly … Read more “Emergency Blogger Requested!”

Some of you may have seen a TLS report earlier, that’s no longer visible. It was about TLS crossword 1138 (mistakenly “1139” in the header), and was a week too early. As I’m the owner … Read more “TLS Report today”

from today’s Times Literary Supplement: Donald Yerrill, known to our solvers as “Tantalus”, died on July 22, 2016, at the age of​ ninety-two. Don set the vast majority of the​ TLS​ crosswords, and was still … Read more “Donald Yerrill”

Once again Andy Burch in Australia has kindly compiled a Puzzle Index cross-checked with the latest in the Times Crossword Book series. These puzzles were originally published in 2011. This page will also be saved … Read more “Times Cryptic Crossword Book 19 – Puzzle Index”

In alphabetical order: ​Broteas is Peter Biddlecombe, Sunday Times (and TLS) crossword editorMyrtilus is Bob Price, a former successful contestant in the Sunday Times clue writing contestPraxiteles is D G Tallis, who has set puzzles … Read more “Information about the new TLS crossword setters”

There will be a meeting for crossword setters and solvers at The George, Borough High Street, Southwark, London, SE1 1NH, coinciding with the annual Times Setters’ Lunch. The meeting will begin at 02:00 pm on … Read more “Sloggers and Betters 13”

I received this from Kathryn Friedlander yesterday. Many of you kindly helped us in our research by completing a very detailed survey of personal background and solving habits, advertised via this board in 2007 and/or … Read more “Cryptic Crossword Research by Kathryn Friedlander and Philip Fine”

Peter Biddlecombe is now editing the TLS Crossword (he has been helping out for a while but now it’s official), and he’s asked me if we might start blogging it again. Myself and Tony Sever … Read more “TLS Crossword – bloggers wanted”