Category: Announcement

Ulaca’s coming over to the UK from Hong Kong next week, and wants to meet up for a beer or three with anyone who’s interested, so I’m organizing a mini Sloggers & Betters meeting at … Read more “Mini S&B London 13th December”

Andy has aked me to blog one of the final puzzles, and I drew this one, which is described as 201203 in the online version; my purely anecdotal evidence – basically, “what some people said … Read more “Times Crossword Competition 2012 – Grand Final, Puzzle no. 3”

If you want to attend the championships as a spectator, here’s what you need to know.   There is limited space for spectators at the preliminary sessions, and more space (as there are 24 contestants … Read more “Spectators at Times Crossword Championships, Sat 20 October”

Russel John (a.k.a. Kororareka) has decided to hang up his blogging boots due to pressure of work, so we now have a vacancy for an every-other-Monday spot. Russel’s last blog will be next Monday, 30th … Read more “Monday Blog Vacancy”

As you may have seen in the comments below, Sotira has finished compiling the results of the survey she put together for us just before Christmas, and they make for some interesting reading. Not the … Read more “Sotira’s Survey Results”

Regular contributor Sotira has put together a survey for us to complete, and I’m sure some interesting statistics will come out of it in the new year. It should only take about 5 minutes, so … Read more “TfTT Christmas Survey”

After the Times Crossword Championship final back in October, I asked Mark Goodliffe to write up some notes on the Final puzzles for inclusion in the blog, expecting they’d publish all three on the following … Read more “Championship final puzzles – the champion’s view”

Here’s a breakdown of all the entrants in the second Preliminary heat. Full names where I know them, (current blogger/commenter pseudonyms in brackets), initials otherwise – apologies in advance if I miss any I ought … Read more “Times Championships – Preliminary 2 results”

Here’s a breakdown of all the entrants in the first Preliminary heat – you’ll find my name about half way down and well out of the running 🙁 Full names where I know them, (current … Read more “Times Championships – Preliminary 1 results”

Congratulations to Mark Goodliffe for his record-equalling fourth consecutive victory, and congratulations to our Jumbo blogger Simon Hanson (sghanson) for coming second! Sadly I had two mistakes in the preliminary, but an honourable mention should … Read more “The Times Crossword Championships 2011”