Azed lunch

Solvers of The Observer’s Azed crossword, both regular and occasional, are invited to a special lunch to celebrate puzzle No. 2,750 at Wolfson College, Oxford on Saturday 3rd May, followed by afternoon tea at Azed’s Oxford home.  For full details please email heald (dot) richard (at) gmail.com.

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A date for your diary … ?

Tickets can be purchased at this link. Calling all Fifteensquared setters and solvers. Please come and join us on Friday, March 21 for an all-day conference about literature and word puzzles in the Auditorium at Magdalen College, Oxford. We … Read more >>

A little bit of decorum please

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Wednesday October 30th 2024 saw the publication of a Guardian Cryptic puzzle by the virtually unknown setter Ludwig.

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It turns out that there was a previous Ludwig puzzle on Wednesday September 25th.

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It further transpires that the answers to both puzzles are the same though the clues are, almost entirely, different.

It put me in mind of Inquisitor 1266 on Saturday February 2nd 2013 and Inquisitor 1267 on Saturday February 9th 2013.

Please can I take the opportunity to remind people that this is a friendly, well-mannered site where everyone should be expected to treat others with respect and is entitled to respect in return.

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