Announcements

Last call for Derby S&B, Saturday 5th May

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A reminder that there will be a Derby Sloggers & Betters event on Saturday 5th May at The Brunswick Inn, next to Derby railway station.  All the details are in the original post which is to be found in the Announcements section of the site.

This is to ask that anyone who would like to join us and hasn’t said so already lets us know below before Friday 27th.  To those folk who said ‘I’ll let you know nearer the time’ in the earlier post: this is the time, please, because I have to confirm numbers and pay for the buffet lunch.  This will be served at 1.00pm.  It’s not obligatory, but if you don’t want one, then please be aware that the menu shown on the pub’s website won’t be available between 2.30pm and 5.30pm, so you won’t be able to order any food between those times.

It’s a lovely pub, the company will be engaging, and newcomers will be particularly welcome.  Eileen and I look forward to seeing you on the 5th.

Peter (Kathryn’s Dad)

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Financial Times

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Those who prefer to solve online may be interested to know that the FT now has an (experimental) interactive version of its cryptic puzzles. A link to the relevant page can be found … Read more >>

Inquisitor Review of 2016-7 – The Results

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Continental Drift

Generally speaking, when a new email correspondent writes to say “After years of doing cryptic crosswords, I’m now having a go at compiling them”, experience tells me that this is not a good omen. When this is rapidly followed by the submission of – horror of horrors – a puzzle with three consecutive unchecked letters across the middle of its grid and six unchecked letter pairs elsewhere, I mean, what is an editor to think?

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Another year …

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Twelve months have passed and again we come to the end of another year so it is time for me to offer my thanks to everyone on the Fifteensquared team for the sterling … Read more >>

Comment Editor

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I have just installed a new comment editor for the desktop site (the comment editor when in mobile view is unchanged). It has buttons for bold, italics and adding a link and it … Read more >>

A memorial to Araucaria

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I have been asked to draw your attention to Hugh Stephenson’s latest editor’s update which gives details of a proposed memorial to Araucaria and how we can contribute towards it.  

Comment Preview

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I have removed the WordPress plugin that has been providing the Comment Preview option because it is very old, no longer supported and it doesn’t comply with current standards. The plugin has never fully … Read more >>

Growing up!

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Well, we can now change into long trousers and go to big school. Yes, that’s right, we’ve reached that age, 11 today! This time last year I bored you with some statistics (which … Read more >>

3D Crossword Calendar 2018

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A message from Puck:

The 2018 3D Crossword Calendar is now available. Puzzle setters for 2018 include seven regulars from the Guardian (Arachne, Enigmatist, Nutmeg, Pasquale, Puck, Tramp and Vlad) and three others whose puzzles are blogged here (Anax, Eclogue and Shark).

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Special puzzle for York S&B 2017

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A message from Jetdoc:

Anax has set a special puzzle for the York S&B weekend (whether you’re planning to attend or not). To give you a chance to solve (or at least part-solve) it in advance, here it is as a PDF.

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YORK S&B weekend 27-29th October 2017 – Update

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A message from John Henderson:

Here’s my end-of-summer update and request for details, slightly different to last year, but easier for everyone, I hope! Even if you have indicated attendance/accommodation details in the spring announcement, please would you give your A-E details in a post hereinunder.

Edit 25/10/17: Details of the Friday night ‘ale trail’ can be found here (map) and here (text).

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