Early for once

Well, I had a day off, and, in any case, the reason I need to get things up early provides a topic to discuss. The new p...

Puritanism

Sometimes a word seems to hog puzzles for a while. Quite a few years ago I recall solving daily Independent puzzles over...

Revisiting a puzzle

My approach to finding puzzles to use here has been to select one of my box-files covering a given period and select a f...

The APEX 2017 puzzle

As promised, this week sees the annual appearance of the Apex 2017 puzzle, along with the winning clues (on the solution...

What I did on my holidays

As always, when I go to another country, I check out their cruciverbal material.  The USA, of course, has more than...

Juvenilia

I said I’d write something about juvenilia – or, at least, the reappearance of puzzles set long ago – ...

Thematic resonance

Getting things up promptly this weekend with a view to clearing the decks before hieing off to Kansas City.  The ne...

Inquisitor 1534: Unsatisfying

Let’s start with a video:  That’s Marjorie’s video about one of our trips around Wellington with ...

Slipping a week

Sorry about missing last week.  A family bereavement threw things out of joint, though we are more or less back on ...

Another hasty post

The weather here continues to be (mostly – the odd ex-cyclone apart) splendid as we move into autumn, with several...