Category: Announcement

Ilan Caron has asked to move to the subs’ bench, so we have a free blogging slot every other Tuesday. If you’re interested, send an email to newblogger at biddlecombe dot demon dot co dot … Read more “Fortnightly blogging vacancy”

A poll not about choosing the best clue for a change. Definition by example is where a clue gives an example of a type (or the name of a sub-type), and the solver responds with … Read more “Definition by example – what do you think?”

For the short term at least, I’m setting up an offsite poll using PhP that can be used to vote for COD. I’ve just put the first one up, link here: http://www.bestfreeforums.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=1&mforum=timescod Ignore things like … Read more “Polls”

Here’s the revised list of suggestions, which I’ve just sent to various people at the Times, including Sue Kentish, Crossword Club Editor, and Richard Browne, the Crossword Editor. Introduction: The purpose of this message is … Read more “Suggestions list sent to Times Crossword Club”

This is a list of points about the Times puzzle that differ from at least some other cryptic xwds. (Posts with information like this that should be good advice for ever will be stored under … Read more “Times Crossword House Style”

It will arrive at some point once login problems at The Times are sorted out. A list of 15 candidates is ready (although it may be whittled down slightly) – just need to somehow access … Read more “COWPOW 8”

This is a list of suggestions about what they need to look at, in descending order of importance. Please add comments to correct the order or suggest things that I’ve forgotten. My intention is to … Read more “Times Crossword Club – top 10 improvements”

Unless there are some volunteers to organise them (in which case, add a comment here!), I’m afraid I’m going to drop these – the hour or so each week that it takes to do them … Read more “COWPOW polls”

For some reason, a thumb-indexed version of the current Chambers is on Amazon UK for the absurdly low price of £5.39 plus p & p. Although it’s not an official dictionary for the Times puzzle, … Read more “Chambers going cheap”

Here are some links to sites with puzzles, in the absence of a working Times site. We start with four current Christmas puzzles, then move on to sites with old puzzles, but these should include … Read more “Puzzles to try while the Times site is down”