Never knowingly undersolved
Admin Because the closing date for entries has been extended by a week, the blog for this puzzle has been rescheduled and will now appear next Sunday (19th Feb).
Whodunnit?
Take away the “Where’s my prize?” and “No i at the newsagent’s today, please would you send IQ” emails from my inbox, and there are still a significant number of correspondents bemoaning harsh difficulty levels. I find this quite hard to fathom, particular in the year just past.
Update 2/5/17:
Thank you to all those who have indicated that you will be coming to the Nottingham S & B on 13th of this month.
We have been informed that we will need to vacate the area in the Pitcher and Piano allocated to us by 5.30pm. Several people have suggested that they might move on to other hostelries in the evening anyway and we can suggest some venues for those who are not familiar with the city.
For those who have expressed interest in the walking tour, please meet Bert (Chris) at the Costa Coffee booth in the main concourse of Nottingham train station at around 11am. The walk is likely to take about an hour. If you arrive earlier and have some time to kill, there is an outdoor photographic exhibition in Station Street just outside the concourse – photographs of Britain from the Air. If you are not arriving by train, and are perhaps using one of the Park and Tram services from the M1 Junction 24 or 26, the trams all stop at Nottingham Station, with a short walk to the main concourse.
Joyce (Lynette) will be meeting and greeting at the Pitcher and Piano from 11.30.
If anyone needs more information on finding the venue, please add a comment and we will try to help!
Looking forward to meeting everyone.
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An announcement from Bertandjoyce (Chris and Lynette)
Peter and Eileen have agreed to hand over this year’s East Midlands S & B to us. The event will be held on Saturday 13th May at the Pitcher and Piano on High Pavement on the edge of the Lacemarket area, approx 10 minutes walk (or one tram stop) from Nottingham station. There are Park and Ride facilities using either the tram system or buses for those travelling by car.
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Another message from Puck:
The 2017 3D Crossword Calendar is now available, and would make an ideal Christmas present for either yourself (go on, put it on that list!) or for someone else you know that is into crosswords.
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A message from Puck:
The 3D Calendar crossword puzzle for this month (September 2016) is now available, and is another first in the crossword world – a 3D puzzle with an added 4D element. However mind-boggling that might sound, it involves a simple enough idea and solvers will find the puzzle is no trickier than most of the other 3D puzzles on offer.
Update: The move to a new server was started at 2:10pm and completed by 2:25pm. Two comments were lost during the move – well, I did ask that no comments be posted between … Read more >>
Back in early May I published a post containing some feedback from Kathryn Friedlander and Philip Fine of Buckingham University regarding their cryptic crossword research which included a link to the published results. … Read more >>
The ‘Accommodation’ post can be found here.
A message from John Henderson:
Thank you for the excellent response to my “Show of Hands” posting. It’s time now to start putting together numbers for both parts of the event…
A suggestion from John Henderson:
Due to IT problems, the blog for this puzzle has been delayed. It will be published as soon as possible, either later today or tomorrow.