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Start of the year

Here in New Zealand we are in the throes of summer, and even days where the forecast has been rather threatening in term...

It’s the time of the year when people take on resolutions about changing behaviour, so it’s not inappropriate to con...

Looking for something different for the BBC Music Magazine Christmas issue, I found myself doodling a Christmas tree sha...

Some Christmas puzzles are already appearing, so this week I am putting up one of my own – an Independent daily fr...

In the Southern Hemisphere at least. Radio NZ Concert obligingly played Vivaldi’s seasonal concerto yesterda...

It’s not often I have to rearrange things to fit in the crosswording, but this has been a busy week, with the resu...

The 10,000th Independent puzzle appeared this week, on 31 October, and I was very pleased to have been asked to produce ...

Having spent some time typing up a BBC Music Magazine puzzle, I discover it’s one I already have up on the site, w...

Let’s herald Spring with a puzzle that couldn’t now appear (though it’s only from 2011). The new...

I was musing in an email about not remembering how your own clues work after about – oh – two weeks, shall w...

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