It’s not often I have to rearrange things to fit in the crosswording, but this has been a busy week, with the result that this is going up earlier than usual.
So, meet Munro.
Munro appears every day in The Dominion Post, Wellington’s newspaper. He’s drawn by Sharon Murdoch, who takes one clue from the adjacent definition-only crossword, and turns out a mini-cartoon. As with so many definition clues, you can’t always be sure of the answer from just the clue, so the book does give the solutions at the end. The book is marked Vol. 1 and Munro is certainly appearing on a daily basis. I can’t find him on the DomPost website, so you may just have to order him from the local craft bookshop Minerva.
Also in books this week is
This arrived in the post (along with volume 22 of its larger cousin) – The Times is very generous about sending its setters copies. There are definitely Pedro puzzles in this – haven’t perused its big brother enough yet. And it’s not just puzzle books – these two came with a free copy of The White Darkness by David Grann. Grann is one of the best New Yorker writers, and this tale of an Englishman who set out to cross Antarctica solo is excellent, and I still recall it from its appearance earlier in the year. I may end up buying Killers of the Flower Moon yet.
There’s more – there’s a new setter’s blog up on the site, covering The Magic of Opera from the Inquisitor series a few weeks ago. And the immediate cause of the rearrangement of things to accommodate crosswording is a fast turn-round of proofs. Things are not 100% confirmed, but there should be Kcit puzzle in the Enigmatic Variations series on Sunday 18 November.
The new puzzle on the site this time round is one from the Independent in December 2012. It may have some thematic links to some of the material mentioned above – I couldn’t possibly comment…
