Category: Announcement

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”

Just a reminder that we have a continuing post about these problems here. I appreciate that it’s very frustrating not to be able to get at the puzzles, but I can’t condone putting scanned copies … Read more “Times Crossword Club problems again”

Spotted on the US ‘Diary of a Crossword Fiend’ blog … So, who’s brave enough to wear a pair of these? I pinched the pic from Amazon – so here’s a link in return. The … Read more “Crossword fashion!”

… to curl up somewhere with one of those tough Christmas puzzles? Have a good Christmas everyone – editors, setters, bloggers, commenters, and silent readers. Those who drop by here should find reports every except … Read more “‘Tis the season …”

I’ve had no problems over the last month, but have seen reports from others, mostly about 404 errors (often called “bird on a box” from the image used for them on the Times site). If … Read more “Times Crossword Club problems”

That’s “Hello Russian friends?” As some of you will doubtless know already, LiveJournal has been sold to a Russian-based company called SUP. Some concern has been expressed over freedom of speech for the fairly large … Read more “Здравствуйте Российские друзья?”

The December Magpie, the first electronic version is available and free. It contains six barred grid puzzles by the Magpie editorial team, who include our own occasional blogger Mr Magoo. Difficulty is supposed to range … Read more “Magpie – 60½ for 0”

Once more, you can do free searches of Collins English Dictionary at the Collins web-site: http://www.collinslanguage.com/ This is useful for the Times puzzle, as Collins is one of its two reference dictionaries. There do however … Read more “Collins dictionary free search is back”

My appeal the other day was mostly successful. After his final report tomorrow, dhogg’s Friday slot will be shared between jackkt and neildubya who’s already on the sub’s bench. dorsetjimbo and glheard will be sharing … Read more “New bloggers”