Category: Announcement

Guardian, Times and FT setter Michael Curl has just set up a Crossword Who’s Who on his website. It looks very good to me but I’m slightly biased as he included me. A little puzzle … Read more “Who’s who and who’s doing what”

Anax has started a new site for his puzzles – http://anaxcrosswords.wordpress.com/. He’s still getting to grips with the WordPress blogging service but there are already some puzzles to try, including a nice “crossword with no … Read more “New home for Anax puzzles”

As regular readers will know, I visited the News International offices in London yesterday to have a look at their new Crossword Club web-site. I’m not going to go into much detail because development versions … Read more “New Crossword Club site”

The following announcement appeared on the Times Crossword Club bulletin board page yesterday: We are pleased to let you know that we are working on a new and improved Crossword Club site for our members, … Read more “New Crossword club site”

Next Monday, I’m visiting NI to discuss possible improvements to the crossword club site. If you have anything really new to suggest on this front, let me know here. If you don’t remember all the … Read more “Visit to News International”

Sad news from Don Manley – his Chambers Crossword Manual is going out of print. He’s trying to get another publisher to take it on, but if you don’t have it, you might want to … Read more “Chambers crossword manual – now out of print”

At last, LiveJournal have provided some statistics pages about blogs (more info for paid users than unpaid). Our average number of page views per month is around 40,000. This is roughly half the number for … Read more “Statistics”

Convention is that we don’t give actual times for the qualifiers; suffice it to say that as far as I am any judge, this musically-orientated puzzle was also the easiest of the four qualifiers this … Read more “Times Crossword Championship 2010 – 4th Qualifier”

… The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.” So says the link on the Crossword Club site that normally displays today’s Times … Read more ““Service Temporarily unavailable …”

Solving time : Ever get that sinking feeling? After 12 minutes, I’m staring at 15 across, knowing that it is an anagram, knowing the fodder, and suspecting it’s one of those phrases that is going … Read more “What the 15 across?”