Category: Announcement

If a week is a long time in politics, 6 months seems an eternity in the blogsphere. Bloggers, and more so commenters, come and go, and I don’t know who reads the ‘About this blog’ … Read more “This blog is now 0.5 years old!”

Just after completing his stand-in spell for Richard, Mr Magoo sent me a couple of puzzles for blog readers. I’ve added these to the guest puzzles section of my crossword-related web site, or if you’d … Read more “Something extra to keep you busy”

A generally fair crossword with some misleading clues that made me think for a bit, and a couple of times put in wrong answers because I hadn’t read the clue properly. Some of the definitions … Read more “Take your time, David!!”

Solving time 8:31 I made heavy weather of some parts of this, having to write out letters for the anagram at 10A. But there are other answers like OBLATE, ACCIDIE and INDRA where I may … Read more “Championship qualifier 2”

Solving time: 4:58 No significant gripes this week, a good and accurate puzzle of about average difficulty for the Sunday Times. Favourite clue was probably 11ac, which reminded me that there are loads of slang … Read more “ST 4217 – Copper-bottomed”

My fastest solving time ever – 4 mins 58 secs. This was a very easy Friday effort, as evidenced by the time it took me to solve it. There were no difficult words, or oblique … Read more “Fast Friday”

Solving time: About 20 mins by the time I gave up looking for alternatives and wrote in my three guesses (starred) of which (at least) one was wrong. Also spent a long time on 26dn. … Read more “ST 4216 – Dyak knifed”

Just about now, some nervy sleepless solvers will be getting up in Stamford, Connecticut. This weekend sees the 30th American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, where the best solvers can dispose of an easy New York Times … Read more “It’s a lovely day for a Crossword Tournament …”

Once the closing date for the championship qualifiers is safely in the past, we’ll discuss them in the usual way. I’m writing about the first two, and richardvg is covering the third and fourth ones. … Read more “Championship Qualifier 1 – a fairly easy starter”

I’ve tried using another of those free gizmos the chaps at Google keep tempting people with. (A Google calendar is in use behind the scenes here to try to make sure we keep track of … Read more “Google custom search”