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The annual APEX (update 1 May)

May 1, 2016 By Phixwd Leave a Comment

Even allowing for the most desultory postal messages, the results should have reached participants by now, so I can put up the annual puzzle that got the site and blog started in the first place: the 2015 edition of the APEX Christmas Crossword.  You can click through to the solution, and at the bottom of that page you’ll find the winning clues.

As always, let me encourage you to keep logging in to the Independent crossword.  The link is here.  The adverts seem to be getting shorter, to the extent that by the time I realised one was about a new cat product, it had finished.  And has it reappeared…?

You can’t log in to see the Beelzebub puzzle, alas, of course, but to remind you what you’re missing next time round I shall put up the one that nearly made it into print. I find I have another dozen of virgin examples, all typed up and ready to go, so I may drip-feed you with them over the next year.  Please let me know if you’re enjoying them, though I don’t mind waiting in line for you to let The Independent and/or the i know first.

Before that, though, you may find me in the Telegraph Toughie slot on 5 May, while Friday 13 May will live up to its reputation since my regular Independent appearance will be matched by a spot in The Times.

Opening announcement

September 27, 2012 By Phixwd 7 Comments

This is a site still in the early stages of development, and pages will be added in due course.  In particular, I want to find a home for the annual series of APEX crosswords I have been creating for some years.  I will also add articles on solving crosswords from time to time, and I will try to publish occasional puzzles from my back catalogue for your entertainment.  

The blog, if I ever manage to write one, may spread its wings a little further afield, and the presence of six cats in our household means that the obligatory feline-centred element of the web is also taken care of.  (Our cats will not, however, suffer to be caged by white misspelled text.)

I would be happy to deal with any queries regarding cryptic crossword clues, though anyone expecting a rapid reply should note the concerns above about finding time to write a blog.

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This is the website of Paul Henderson, who sets crosswords for The Independent (London) under the pseudonyms Phi, for the Daily Telegraph (London) under the pseudonym Kcit, and anonymously for The Times (London) amongst many other outlets. For a more detailed biography see the About Me page.

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