Category: Announcement

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”

OK folks, sorry I’ve not been around much lately to confirm the new schedule, but here it is: Jackkt is now doing all Tuesdays.Penfold_61 is now doing Jumbos ending in 1 and 6 (starting next … Read more “Call for volunteers – update”

This was an amazingly hard puzzle, especially for me as I biffed in a few incorrect answers near the start. For example the hidden word ESCROW in 12ac (I thought may be in some cases … Read more “T4TT 10th Anniversary Crossword – the hard one!”

As promised, we have a couple of specially compiled crosswords available to celebrate the 10th Anniversary. These were handed round at last night’s 10th Anniversary parties in London and New York, but if you couldn’t … Read more “T4TT 10th Anniversary Crosswords”

As I mentioned a while ago, this blog was first started by Pete Biddlecombe on 3rd December 2005, so we’re going to try to have a party in London on Saturday 5th December to celebrate … Read more “T4TT 10th Anniversary”

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 “Times Crossword Championships – the real reason most of us turn up! :-)”

Now that we have reached the grand total of 400 puzzles it occurred to me that this might be a suitable time to evaluate the success (or otherwise, but hopefully not) of the Times Quick … Read more “Quick Cryptic Milestone”

Pete Biddlecombe (founder of this site and currently Sunday Times Crossword editor) reminded me this week that we have an important anniversary coming up. On 2nd December this year it will be the 10th Anniversary … Read more “Times for the Times 10th Anniversary!”

I saw this puzzle when the author posted the clues in Verlaine’s blog of July 24, so I cut and pasted the clues and solved the puzzle. I found it a different and entertaining sort … Read more “I am going to blog The Rotter’s Science-themed Times-based Crossword”