Protected: Quite Radical

February 24, 2025 at 4:02 amJanuary 17, 2025 at 8:05 pm by Admin

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A date for your diary … ?

January 23, 2025 at 8:50 pmJanuary 16, 2025 at 7:34 pm by Admin

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 >>

Only Connect New Year’s Eve crosswords

January 9, 2025 at 10:13 amJanuary 2, 2025 at 2:34 pm by kenmac

Anyone who watched the last Only Connect of 2024 may be wondering about the crossword which was displayed prominently in the foreground. Victoria referenced it during the show. Here are links to the … Read more >>

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, etc …

January 2, 2025 at 1:05 amDecember 18, 2024 at 9:00 am by Admin

We reach the end of another year

Do You Hear What I Hear? Sleigh Bells Ring Are You Listening?

January 3, 2025 at 5:11 pmDecember 14, 2024 at 9:00 am by kenmac

Listener blogs coming soon Beginning with the Listener puzzle from December 14th (no. 4846), Listener blogs will appear here three weeks after the publication date. Thus the blog (no. 4846) will be scheduled … Read more >>

The 3D Cryptics Calendar is now on sale

December 3, 2024 at 5:03 pmNovember 14, 2024 at 11:03 am by kenmac

The 3D Cryptics Calendar is now on sale. It features new and inventive puzzles by (among others) Enigmatist, Paul, Shark and Vlad, supplying the witty and devious clues you would expect, alongside often … Read more >>

A little bit of decorum please

November 6, 2024 at 11:56 amOctober 30, 2024 at 8:39 pm by Admin

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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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Link to blog

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

Link to puzzle

Link to blog

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.