Category: Announcement

This year is the centenary of the crossword, the first “Word-Cross” puzzle having been published in the New York World on December 21st 1913. To mark this, John Halpern, a Times setter who also sets … Read more “2013 – Centenary Year of the Crossword”

Something strange is going on. If you’re logged in you’ll see this post, if you’re not, there’s a good chance you won’t. Yesterday, my placeholder and Helen’s Jumbo blog (as submitted by her and again … Read more “Problems with the site”

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”