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...

Comments on puzzles

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

Another first

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

And the weekend has gone…

So I have resorted to a puzzle I can add to the site quickly – another unpublished Beelzebub (there are still quit...

The double blog

This time sees the appearance of a double setter’s blog, addressing both puzzles that appeared a couple of weekend...

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...