This week’s puzzle is from the Church Times in 2007. I’ve chosen it to accompany an announcement about the puzzle.
The puzzle was weekly from its launch in 1989, but in recent years had appeared fortnightly to save costs. But there has been a constant series of requests for the reinstatement of the alternate weeks – I suppose it is an obvious question for cruciverbally-inclined readers when there is a fortnightly puzzle in a weekly publication.
But it need no longer be raised, as the puzzle resumes weekly publication from the start of 2025. We already have the first batch going through the process, and I have re-dated all the ones in my pipeline. I’m happy to say that the team had already supplied enough to see me through the next quarter, and more puzzles have since come in. But I would be happy to receive more, just to keep the buffer zone at the same dimension. Any volunteers?
The last Church Times puzzle of 2024 (in the issue of 20/27 December) is a double puzzle from myself, and I’ll provide a reminder nearer the date. Meanwhile we ease into December with the usual Independent puzzle on 29 November to bid farewell to the old month, and its successor, not so usually, on Tuesday 3 December (you know, I think there might be a thematic element to that one…). Then there’s an Inquisitor called Don’t Look Up on Saturday 7 December.
The joys of AI and AI-type systems: yesterday I ordered a Kindle book via Amazon, and the invoice drifted in today. There was the usual line about ‘Customers who ordered books in your order also bought:’ – and there was the book in the order. Can’t help feeling that was something of a rookie error.
Back to the joys of fridge-defrosting…
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