Category: Announcement

I wonder if I can manage to write a puzzle each week for you to solve? Here’s one to start off with – a thematic blocked grid puzzle roughly in the style that’s used at … Read more “A puzzle to try”

Blog will appear presently. edit: Proper blog for 24,534 is now posted above. I just wanted to vent at the continuing uselessness of the Crossword Club. I solved the puzzle late last night before going … Read more “Sick as a Parrot on a Box”

Guardian 25,000 by Enigmatist – paper solving fogeys like me should click on “PDF version”. Roger Squires (Rufus in the Guardian on many Mondays) has his 1000th puzzle in the Telegraph.

Solving time: 30:00 (2 wrong) For once I didn’t make any daft mistakes, my two wrong answers being down to ignorance in the case of 25D (DEAN) and, arguably, unfairness on the part of the … Read more “TLS 828 (9 April) – plus a bonus RBQ-type question”

I got all but eight of the answers at a first sitting (while on the train home, in fact), then picked it up again the following morning armed with books and Internet, and finished fairly … Read more “TLS 827 (2nd April)”

This was certainly not the easiest qualifier I have seen. In the past I have cynically thought that they were possibly slightly easier than the norm in order to collect entry fees – not the case for this … Read more “Championship 2010 – Qualifier 1”

Congratulations to Anax, who had his first puzzle in the Financial Times today, under the new pseudonym “Loroso”. Here’s a link to the PDF version. The link should be good for about 3 weeks – … Read more “Anax in the FT”

Solving time: 30:00 (5 unsolved) I plodded my way through this one until (after about 20 minutes) I was left with five clues unsolved in the SE corner, and (not for the first time) made … Read more “TLS Puzzle No. 826”

This appeared today and can be printed in a clear PDF from this page. My guess is that links to the later qualifiers – on (Thursdays) May 13, June 10, and July 15 – will … Read more “Times Crossword Championship – first qualifiying puzzle”

Solving time: 30 minutes (5 unsolved) I thought this was going to be another success story. I solved 15 clues on my first run-through (and correctly guessed another, but didn’t dare put it in), and … Read more “TLS Puzzle No. 824 (with an unresolved clue at 7D)”