A message from John Henderson
It will come as no surprise that I am currently unable to organise the usual York S&B weekend this year. Every time I try to fix something, the rules change, as they have today with the Rule of Six.
Announcements
The demise of Enigmatic Variations
It would appear that The Telegraph intends to discontinue the Enigmatic Variations series of barred cryptic puzzles in August. We must try to prevent this from happening so please read the new article … Read more >>
Site access difficulties
There has been a problem on our hosting company’s server since early yesterday evening which was making access to the site, and to the admin area, difficult to say the least (most of … Read more >>
Reason for lost comments
Without any prior notification, our hosting company migrated my account, and hence the site, to a new server earlier today and it would appear that in the process a number of comments were … Read more >>
London Crossword Gathering – 4th April 2020 – Update
The organiser of this event will no longer be visiting the UK in April (please see comment #21) but it appears from subsequent comments that others still want the meeting to take place.
The New Year Approaches
Well, we’ve come to the end of another year and so it is time for me to thank the Fifteensquared blogging team for the time and effort they have put in during the … Read more >>
3D Crossword Calendar 2020
A message from Puck:
The brand new 2020 3D Crossword Calendar is now available to order through the website: http://www.calendarpuzzles.co.uk/calendar-puzzle/
YORK S&B weekend 25-27th October 2019 – New Posting
Update 24/10/19 – Details of the Friday night Ale Trail can be found here.
For our antipodean visitors
WordPlodder has asked me to publicise the following:
Sloggers & Betters York VI
An announcement by John Henderson:
Here’s my annual spring announcement, regarding what will be our sixth autumn S&B weekend get-together in York, dates: Friday evening 25th October to Sunday lunchtime 27th October with the main event at the Fox and Roman during the day on Saturday 26th. I hope to avoid a clash with the final of The Times Crossword Championships, which is held in London around that time, usually in early November (for updates, see the Crossword Event Calendar).
S and B Leicester May 4th
It’s just a couple of weeks now to the Leicester Sloggers and Betters get-together in Leicester on May 4 [original announcement here],so it’s time to encourage waverers and to give some more details … Read more >>
TES Cryptic Crosswords
For some time now Knut (Julius in the FT) has been setting the cryptic crosswords that appear in the TES. Twenty of these puzzles have now been published in a book which, if … Read more >>
Sad news about Schadenfreude
Very sad news — we learnt today of the recent death of John Harrington, the wonderful setter Schadenfreude. Editors and other contacts were becoming increasingly concerned that no one had heard from him, … Read more >>
Sloggers and Betters – Leicester, May 4th
Just to let you know in good time to put the date in your diary that this year’s ‘Derby Day’, arranged by the East Midlands Consortium [Chris and Lynette {aka Bert and Joyce}, … Read more >>
Another Year Ends …
… or should that be another year is about to start?
Well, as we come to the end of another year it is time for me to say thank you to all the bloggers and comment posters who have contributed so much to this site during the past twelve months and to the setters, and their editors, who have provided the cryptic puzzles for our delectation.