Admin – Page 21 – Fifteensquared

A change when adding comments – please read

Mon December 3, 2012 at 12:01 pmSat November 24, 2012 at 4:49 pm by Admin

This site currently receives over 65,000 spam comments each month. The vast majority of these (>99.9%) are intercepted by the excellent Akismet spam filter and so never appear on posts but they are … Read more >>

Slow loading times and outages

Sat November 17, 2012 at 4:38 pmTue November 13, 2012 at 10:10 pm by Admin

You will have noticed recently that the site has become slow to load or is unavailable (FTTP500). When this occurred back in January the problem was due to a couple of other websites, … Read more >>

Sloggers & Betters (Manchester), Saturday 8th September 2012 …..

Thu September 13, 2012 at 1:54 pmSun August 5, 2012 at 5:41 pm by Admin

….. and Dean Meyer’s 50th birthday bash. Dean has sent the following information about these two events which I post verbatim: “Actually this is what you might call Sloggers & Betters Plus, as … Read more >>

Sloggers and Betters (London) – 30th May

Thu May 31, 2012 at 8:03 amWed May 16, 2012 at 11:10 am by Admin

The annual lunch for Times setters is taking place on 30th May and this will be followed by a Sloggers and Betters get-together in The Town of Ramsgate (62 Wapping High Street E1) … Read more >>

Live Chat with Enigmatist

Sat March 24, 2012 at 8:59 amThu March 22, 2012 at 2:55 pm by Admin

After last week’s live chat with Arachne/Anarche, this week it’s the turn of John Henderson (aka Enigmatist/Nimrod/Io/Elgar). The session will be from 1pm to 3pm tomorrow (23rd March). On Saturday, the Guardian Open … Read more >>

A BIG “THANK YOU” FROM RUFUS

Tue March 6, 2012 at 10:42 pmWed February 29, 2012 at 12:15 pm by Admin

The last ten days have been very busy, and very enjoyable, for me, and so many people have taken time and effort to make it so. From the February 18th surprise party at … Read more >>

The Magpie

Thu February 2, 2012 at 10:41 amSat January 28, 2012 at 8:49 pm by Admin

The Magpie is a subscription-only crossword magazine that publishes thematic cryptics of the sort found in the Enigmatic Variations, Inquisitor and Listener series. The difficulty level varies from a little above that of … Read more >>

Sunday Cryptic Puzzles

Mon January 23, 2012 at 5:17 pmThu January 19, 2012 at 10:50 am by Admin

Anax is trying to get some feedback as to what people think about the level of difficulty of the Sunday cryptics. To this end he has added a poll to his website. It … Read more >>

Tips For Solving Alphabetical Jigsaw Crosswords

Sat November 26, 2011 at 4:00 pm by Admin

The following is a copy of a blog written by PeeDee for an Araucaria puzzle that appeared in the Guardian on 19/11/2011. It contains useful tips for those who have not met this … Read more >>

Today’s (25/11) Indy by Phi

Mon November 28, 2011 at 9:33 amFri November 25, 2011 at 12:05 am by Admin

From Kathryn Friedlander and Philip Fine at the University of Buckingham:

In 2010/11 we invited a number of crossword solvers to take part in recorded trials at Buckingham, during which they solved a cryptic crossword while commenting on their progress out loud. This crossword has been published today in the Independent newspaper as ‘Cryptic Crossword 7385 by Phi’.

In order to gain a richer understanding of the particular dynamics of this puzzle, we are inviting comments on it from all solvers who tackled the published version on or shortly after Friday 25th November 2011.

Sloggers and Betters (Midlands) 3 – Update

Sat November 26, 2011 at 3:09 pmMon November 7, 2011 at 1:00 am by Admin

Only a couple of weeks to go now before the Sloggers and Betters lunch at Waterfall in Derby on Saturday 26th November, so just an update for everyone who’s indicated they’re coming, and … Read more >>

Sloggers and Betters (Midlands) 3

Sat September 24, 2011 at 1:07 pmFri September 2, 2011 at 11:10 am by Admin

Following a three-line whip from Eileen, I am trying to organise another Midlands get-together for crossword aficionados. Following the Brum Bash that Anax and Jayne organised, we’ll be having another Derby Day. It … Read more >>

Arachne / Anarche

Fri September 9, 2011 at 3:22 pmWed August 31, 2011 at 11:54 am by Admin

Those of you who would like to see how Arachne/Anarche spends her spare time, and perhaps help her to achieve her goal regarding support for a good cause, should visit www.pageant.org.uk/sarah.htm where there is … Read more >>

Help please – 15² on mobile browsers

Thu August 11, 2011 at 9:40 amTue August 2, 2011 at 4:18 pm by Admin

Thanks for the feedback. It seems that comments can be viewed on some iPhones but not others. By coincidence, another WPtouch update was released today (4th Aug) and I have just installed it (circa 1800 BST). I also altered one or two of the settings but these should not affect the display of comments.

Please let me know via a comment below if the problem has been resolved by this latest update. If it hasn’t I will pursue the matter further.

Araucaria/Cinephile on Desert Island Discs

Sun July 10, 2011 at 11:27 amMon July 4, 2011 at 11:19 am by Admin

Thanks to Scarpia and Shirley for drawing attention to the fact that John Graham (Araucaria/Cinephile) is going to be the guest on Desert Island Discs next Sunday 10th July @ 11.15 on BBC … Read more >>