Superstitions

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

Merry Christmas

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

The approach of Christmas

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

The start of summer

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

A busy week

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

10,000

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

The perils of the post

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

Spring

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

Puzzles you can’t remember

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

The perils of the dictionary

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...