A message from Tom Johnson (Doc, Gozo, Maskarade):
This week sees the 50th anniversary of the Spectator crossword.
Announcements
John Graham – A Centenary Tribute
by Tom Johnson aka Maskarade and Gozo
Today, February 16th, marks the centenary of the birth of John Galbraith Graham who compiled crosswords under the pseudonyms of Araucaria for the Guardian and Cinephile for the Financial Times.
MyCrossword
My attention has been drawn to a new site that may be of interest to some of you. It provides a location where amateur setters can compile and host their own crosswords.
The New Site Theme
As you will have noticed, Fifteensquared has had a make-over (and not before time, some of you might say!). Apart from the new appearance, with larger font sizes to make reading easier when … Read more >>
Comment Editor – Update
I am sorry that, so far, I have not been able to reinstate the rich text WYSIWYG comment editor. This is still being worked on, but in the meantime I have activated a … Read more >>
Comments
Due to a recent WordPress update, a WordPress comment plugin, which the site used to use, no longer works, so I have had to deactivate it. This means that you will now only … Read more >>
Missing Paragraph Spaces
Update: I have found the cause of the missing paragraph spaces in comments. The plugin that generated the WYSIWYG comment field is not compatible with the latest version of WordPress. I have therefore … Read more >>
3D Crossword Calendar 2021
A message from Puck:
The brand new 2021 3D Crossword Calendar is now available to order through the new 3D Crosswords website: https://3dcalendarpuzzles.co.uk
John Dawson RIP
John Dawson (Armonie/Chifonie) passed away towards the end of last month. A tribute to him by the FT crossword editor, along with his first puzzle published in the FT, can be found here.
Comment Guidelines
I have updated Para. 3 of the Site Policy to include the words “for the most part” so that it better reflects what has been the case in reality for many years. Without … Read more >>
The Increase In Comments
Update (rather lengthy, sorry!)
My thanks to all those who have taken the time to provide their input. The feedback has been most useful.
S&B York 2020
A message from John Henderson
It will come as no surprise that I am currently unable to organise the usual York S&B weekend this year. Every time I try to fix something, the rules change, as they have today with the Rule of Six.
The demise of Enigmatic Variations
It would appear that The Telegraph intends to discontinue the Enigmatic Variations series of barred cryptic puzzles in August. We must try to prevent this from happening so please read the new article … Read more >>
Site access difficulties
There has been a problem on our hosting company’s server since early yesterday evening which was making access to the site, and to the admin area, difficult to say the least (most of … Read more >>
Reason for lost comments
Without any prior notification, our hosting company migrated my account, and hence the site, to a new server earlier today and it would appear that in the process a number of comments were … Read more >>