My first puzzle in real print …

Author   petebiddlecombePosted on Categories Announcement
… edited by Don Manley, appears in this week’s Church Times. For one week you can see it in their online version here. To print from this page with a complete grid image, copy/paste the heading, grid and clues to Microsoft Word or similar. Or print pages 2-4 in landscape if you want a quicker way. [I haven’t checked what happens in browsers other than Firefox – it might print fine as it is in Internet Explorer]

5 comments on “My first puzzle in real print …”

  1. Managed to dredge up PARACLETE and SHEBAT from the undisturbed depths of my brain, and tried to do the same for the title of the Coptic patriarch, till I realized I had fallen into your baboon trap!

    Thought EKE OUT very clever, putting the definition in the middle of the clue, and had to smile at HAPPY CLAPPY.

    Wondered if there might be a 1066 theme in there somewhere.

    Didn’t time myself, but I guess about half an hour. Many thanks for a very enjoyable puzzle.

    1. Thanks – number-based themes in CT puzzles are pretty unlikely – setters don’t know what number they’ll get.
  2. A bit harder than the usual CT’s, but good – felt very much like a Times puzzle to me. Nice clear wordplay helped with the unfamiliar words – esp. 16d.

    Jon

  3. 15:12 here. I don’t normally even look at the Church Times crossword, but Anax mentioned it on Facebook, then someone posted the link at the Crossword Centre. Congratulations on your first published puzzle. Are there likely to be more now you’ve got the ball rolling?
    1. I hope there will be another CT one, though probably a few months away yet. I hope to build up a portfolio and a bit more experience but have to admit that setting is still very tough work for me compared to solving. In the meantime, there’s another of mine on the ‘Big Dave’ blog.

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