There’s a new blog for solvers of the Ottawa Citizen’s syndicated version of the Sunday Times puzzle – see “Other Solving Blogs” on the right hand side of this page. This links to our report and adds some comments from the local point of view.
I’ve also discovered recently that the”Sunday Times” puzzle in The Australian is not a syndicated puzzle in the usual way, but one written for Aussie solvers by one of a couple of members of the ST setting team. I’m not yet aware of any blog covering that puzzle.
The last entry was here:
http://minjupdiary.blogspot.com/2009/04/weekend-australian-sunday-times-627.html
Apparently it was so bad the blogger gave up in utter despair!
hasn’t been exactly a flurry of comments. Small wonder that because
there’s no glut of cryptics in Canada. It came as news to me that not only
is there a blog but that the Ottawa Citizen publishes the puzzle in syndication.
I know that here in the centre of the universe, Toronto, The Star publishes
a Times puzzle on Saturday calling it The Prize. The paper offers a $10 prize
for the first ten correct solutions. Since I’ve joined the Times Crossword Club
(back in January) I pick up the paper only to find I’ve recently done the darn thing.
Peter, a while ago we discussed what’s available here in the colonies. Cox and Rathvon
publish a “Canadianized” puzzle in the Saturday edition of the National Post. Then there’s Fraser Simpson’s bit of devilment in the Saturday Globe and Mail and Caroline
Andrews efforts Friday and Sunday in The Star.
The Globe publishes 6 days a week with a daily cryptic but I know not whence they come. (The Post’s weekday puzzles are from The Telegraph.)
I’ve been doing the Globe one’s for years. Since joining The Club, buying Tim Moorey’s
book and subscribing to this blog my solving skills have improved considerably as has
my enjoyment level.
Thanks to you all for a really sterling effort.
best
Bob
Hogtown, Ontario