New Server

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We have now moved to a new hosting company. If you have any problems with the site please report them to me at fifteensquared{at}btinternet{dot}com or the usual Admin address. From my experiments to … Read more >>

Beelzebub 1,187

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After a fairly brisk start, this became quite a tough puzzle for me. Still, the usual top qualty crossword with lots of interesting words. *=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. Across … Read more >>

Azed 2113

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Again a lovely sound crossword from Azed. I won’t waste time by copying out Chambers but as usual will confine myself to trying to explain how the clues work, something that wasn’t always … Read more >>

Independent on Sunday 1189 Alchemi

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A comparatively new setter in Fifteensquared’s coverage, and, as far as I can tell, his/her first in the IoS.  Straightforward solve.  Thanks to Alchemi.  Definitions are underlined in the clues.  [[The pictures at the bottom have unidentified links with the puzzle.]]

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Guardian 25,808 / Araucaria

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An excellent puzzle: cleverly constructed and with about the right level of difficulty for a Saturday, we thought. The rubric for this puzzle read “Across solutions are 11, when it comes to the … Read more >>

A Reminder

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Due to the transfer to a new hosting company, please don’t add a comment later than 8pm on Sunday. There will then be some down time, after about 9pm, followed by a period of around … Read more >>

Donations – a big THANK YOU!

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Many, many thanks to all you generous people out there for your donations. There are just too many of you for me to write to thank you individually.

When I first mentioned donations, my hope was that there would be enough offers to meet the hosting costs for the next twelve months. The initial response to my request was such that I quickly had to revise my target to two years, which had the added benefit of being able to take advantage of the discount available on the hosting company’s biennial tariff.

However, this still became an unrealistic target as offers of donations continued to come in, at a far greater rate than I had originally anticipated. The end result is that, if/when the final contributions arrive, there will be enough in the kitty to pay for a third year’s hosting! My apologies to those who wanted to donate more but, as you can see, the £5 I set was certainly enough.

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Financial Times 14,181 by Falcon

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Straightforward and well defined         Across 1 GRANDMASTER (top chess player) grand (magnificent) master (teacher) 7 ORB (round object) hidden in [convey]OR B[elt] 9 METRO (subway) T (time) in (ROME)* … Read more >>