All Posts By:Phixwd

The start of summer

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...

I missed an update due to a busy weekend followed by a bad attack of some viral thing or other (I can recommend not fain...

I found myself wondering about commenting on puzzles this week. The immediate prompt was an email from another set...

When I started putting puzzles up on this site, I went through my files and extracted the first example of all puzzle se...

So I have resorted to a puzzle I can add to the site quickly – another unpublished Beelzebub (there are still quit...

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