Under the puzzle in the paper:
The Times Crossword Championship will take place again this year at Cheltenham on Sunday, October 12. Full details will appear with the first qualifying puzzle on Thursday, April 3. Further qualifiers will appear on May 1, May 22 and June 26. Last year, any entrant claiming to have completed one of these puzzles in less than 30 minutes qualified.
I look forward to seeing some of you there! If you finished in the first 25 of either preliminary round last year, don’t forget that you don’t need to qualify (or pay, if I remember right).
For more information, see my unofficial championship page.
How to qualify for the Times Crossword Championship 2008
http://crosswordbebop.blogspot.com/2008/03/tyler-tetrapeats-at-acpt.html
I’m dipping my toe in the cryptic water by trying some of Cincinnus’s Coffee Break Cryptics…