Day: 28 February 2017
Site Response Times & Display Errors
Update: I am now confident that the response time issue will be resolved before next Monday (the extended page loading times are most prevalent at the beginning of the week) because the hosting company has now accepted that other accounts on the shared server are affecting its performance.
A number of people have mentioned that, since Tuesday morning, they been unable to access the site or have needed to refresh a page before it displays correctly (i.e. the home page has all the latest post summaries and individual posts have all the comments). Some server modifications were made on Monday evening to try to rectify, or at least reduce, the response time issue but the hosting company has informed me that these should not have caused the access/display problems. If you continue to have access or display problems please let me know either via email (admin{at}fifteensquared{dot}net) or by adding a comment below. I would also be interested in receiving details of any problems experienced during the last couple of days.
Independent 9478 / Radian
Tuesday Independent crosswords tend to be quite challenging and often have a theme I think today’s puzzle from Radian fits the bill. There are references to Daniel DEFOE and his novel … Read more >>
Financial Times 15,485 by ARMONIE
Huzzah, a ‘normal’ Tuesday FT. After a brief run of absolute stinkers (which were fun but mucked up my modest life-schedule, and yours if you finished them), a straightforward and elegantly composed mid-week puzzle. Thanks to Armonie and the powers that be.
Guardian Cryptic 27,132 by Sphinx
The first Sphinx puzzle I’ve seen, and a bit of a mixed bag. Mostly clever with some obscure words and some awkward parsing. Favourites were 20ac and 8dn. Thanks, Sphinx
Edit: since blogging, the online version of the puzzle has added [italics mine]:
“Special instructions: Having solved this puzzle, tonight’s episode of ‘Inside No 9’ on BBC2 at 10pm would interest you”
The episode is titled ‘The Riddle of the Sphinx’, and involves a cryptic setter and a woman named Nina… [BBC link] [Fifteensquared post]
Second Edit: [Link to a separate post with spoilers for the TV episode]