Never knowingly undersolved
I have updated Para. 3 of the Site Policy to include the words “for the most part” so that it better reflects what has been the case in reality for many years. Without … Read more >>
Update (rather lengthy, sorry!)
My thanks to all those who have taken the time to provide their input. The feedback has been most useful.
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.
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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.
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 >>
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/
Update 24/10/19 – Details of the Friday night Ale Trail can be found here.
WordPlodder has asked me to publicise the following:
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).
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>