The interactive version of the puzzle can now be found via the link below:
crossword 101 – interactive version
To gain a suitable printout of the puzzle, click on the image below. In ‘Print preview’ the ‘Scale’ option can be used to change the size. Solutions will be posted on Friday 24th May.
Today only, last week’s IoS puzzle is available online, right here.
And if you’re too late for that, please do take a look at helpful blogging at fifteen squared.
Once again, please look out for the crossword in next week’s Independent on Sunday – that’s the 21st April. It should be another new one of mine, so, if at all possible, please grab a copy of the paper, peruse the news, and give the cryptic crossword a go!
Fifteensquared.net is the fine site that blogs solutions to Independent, Guardian and Financial Times crosswords. And today they’ve posted explanations to my puzzle from last Sunday. So why not take a look?
And I’ve just now found out that the puzzle is available – today only – on the Independent website.
As you can probably tell I haven’t posted a crossword this week. That’s because this week’s puzzle can be found on page 101 of the Independent on Sunday.
Please do get yourself a copy and give it a go if you have the chance.
In case you can’t make it to a (British) newsagents, here’s a tiny puzzle for you to be going along with…
Please look out for my first crossword to be published in a national paper. It will be in the Independent on Sunday on the 10th March. So, if at all possible, please give it a go!
In the meantime I am going to try to keep up posting here as regularly as possible…
Big Dave has once again very kindly posted a slightly improved version of one of my recent puzzles on his Crossword Blog.
And once again I ought to mention what an excellent site it is – whether or not you regularly do the Telegraph crossword, there’s a lot of great stuff there.
For the instructions to the following, please see cryptic quiz 1.
Solutions can now be found in the comments section below.
For the instructions to the following, please see cryptic quiz 1.
The following films appear here with an extra character each:
1. Novel Idiot (3,4)
2. Spanish Snacks (4)
3. What wasps do? (3,5)
And those characters all appear in another film. What is it? (Please note, the number of letters noted are for each actual film…)
The solutions can now be found in the comments section below
This is a day or two early. And just in case you missed it, the double crossword is back – just take a look below this post.
For the instructions to the following, please see cryptic quiz 1.
The following films initially appear different here…
1. Rubbish (5)
2. Arrogant (5)
3. Splinter! (6)
And as always something links them. What is it?
Solutions can now be found in the comments section below.
