Category: Announcement

… for a London pub and dinner gathering on Thursday. Please let me know promptly if you would like to come – especially for the dinner part – anyone can turn up at the pub … Read more “Sloggers and Betters 5 – last call …”

There’s some hype at the moment about WolframAlpha, a “computational knowledge engine” which, judging by some of the videos, can do some very clever things. It goes live at midnight UTC tonight. The information currently … Read more “A new tool?”

Just to let you know the UKPuzzle website has now been cleared of trojans – I found three of the little blighters in the end. Actually getting rid was fairly easy thanks to Avast! The … Read more “Clean at last”

At long last, our 5th social gathering for the writers and fans of this blog and the puzzles behind it. Well actually “these blogs” – it’s equally open to folk from fifteensquared, Big Dave’s Telegraph … Read more “Sloggers and Betters 5”

Just got round to setting up an initial version of a “Memories” page – linked at the top of this page. This lists “memorable” postings on this blog (including my original single-handed version). They’re grouped … Read more “Yesterday once more …”

Today’s paper contains a grand total of three four cryptic crosswords (if we count the umpteenth reprint of No. 1), and other cryptic xwd material. The most significant is a two-page “how to solve it” … Read more “We’re official now…”

I went to print today’s Saturday cryptic and found there is now a button with an option to print a grey grid to save ink. Brilliant! This was a suggestion I wrote to them about and … Read more “Club changes”

I’ve just heard that this year’s championship will be on Sunday October 11th. As far as I know location and everything else are the same as the last few years, except that the puzzles will … Read more “Times Championship – a date for some of your diaries”

Here’s what I sent to the Times …. This is a list of suggestions about the crossword club search facility. It’s the result of some discussion at the Times for the Times blog, and I’ll … Read more “Suggestion list sent to the Times”

Hot on the heels of the new Telegraph blog, I’ve just discovered a daily blog about the Crosaire puzzle in the Irish Times. If you’ve never tried Crosaire, the first thing to know is that … Read more “Another new blog – Crosaire”