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Category: Announcements
CrypticCrosswords.net
The Site should now be available. Please let me know, via a comment on this post, if you encounter any problems.
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The upgrade to WordPress 4.6 failed and the site is currently unavailable.
I hope to be able to add more soon
Petitjean – John Pidgeon
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It is with great sadness that I learned today that John passed away yesterday. According to the announcement in the Daily Telegraph “he did not have a battle with cancer; he did his best to get along with it”. We often joked on here, in the words of Gnomethang, “I always consider that I need to put a ‘slightly mad’ hat on in order to solve a Petitjean crossword.” |
Cryptic Crossword Research (Update – May 2016)
Cryptic Crossword Research
by Kathryn Friedlander and Philip Fine
Many of you kindly helped us in our research by completing a very detailed survey of personal background and solving habits, advertised via this board in 2010. We’ve just published some of the results from this large-scale survey in the Open Access international journal ‘Frontiers’, and a link is available here for anyone who is interested in downloading and reading the findings (click on the Download Article button for a pdf).… Continue reading
Summer Masterclass (June 2016)
Crossword Masterclass for Aspiring Setters and Advanced Solvers
Brighton, Saturday 25 June 2016
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A message from Guardian setter Boatman:
Sloggers and Betters 12
Sloggers and Betters 12
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| What? | The 12th annual “Sloggers and Betters” gathering for crossword setters and blog contributors and readers will take place in London, following on, as in previous years, from the annual lunch for Times setters. The George no longer take reservations, but start by looking in the Parliament bar (first door on the right) – fellow cruciverbalists are not hard to find. |
Posting of comments
Update: Commenting should be back to normal. Thanks to someone on the WordPress Support Forum who identified the culprit as an update that was applied this morning to the CloudFlare plugin. A new version of this plugin has corrected the problem.… Continue reading
Performance Problems – an Update
As I’m sure you are all aware the site has been suffering from poor performance for a long time. Evohosting, the previous hosting company, recommended that I switch to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) provided by Daily Internet, their parent company.… Continue reading
Subscriptions
The subscription process has been suspended as it no longer works. I am working on providing a suitable replacement and will let you know when it becomes available.
We have lift off!
Update:
The resources allocated to the site have been significantly increased and it is “so far so good”. Let’s hope it stays that way as it has been another very frustrating day.
Welcome to the new server. There are still a few teething problems, but they should be ironed out over the next few days.… Continue reading