Christmas and New Year Puzzles
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Puzzle publication and closing dates over the Christmas and New Year period.
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Category: Highlight
Now We Are Six!
Big Dave’s Crossword Blog celebrates its sixth birthday today!
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Is it really six years since, in a moment of weakness, I set up this blog, with the first post published on the following day? The average number of pageviews each day now exceeds 16,000 – can any other crossword-related blog come close to matching that?
Christmas and New Year Puzzles (2014/2015)
Christmas and New Year Puzzles
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Puzzle publication and closing dates over the Christmas and New Year period.
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BBC CiNA 3D Calendar Puzzle (2015)
BBC CiNA 3D Calendar Puzzle (2015)
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The BBC CiNA (Children in Need Appeal) 3D Calendar Puzzle for 2015 is now available. Each day has a clue. Each month has a 3D grid to complete. Some of the best setters in the UK have given of their genius freely to provide us with enough clues to solve to keep us out of trouble for most of the year.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to all our readers
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Big Dave and the team of bloggers would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
A special thank you to all the crossword setters, especially to those who have taken the time to leave comments on the blog, and to Phil McNeill and his team at Telegraph Puzzles.
If you are one of several thousand lurkers that visit the site every day – why not break cover and say hello!
Christmas and New Year Puzzles (2013/2014)
Christmas and New Year Puzzles
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Phil McNeill has kindly provided me with the puzzle publication and closing dates over the Christmas and New Year period, and I have produced a table which also includes the dates you can expect to see those puzzles reviewed here.
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Crossword Centenary Convention
Sloggers, Betters and other Cruciverbalists’
Centenary Convention
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To commemorate the centenary of the crossword, we really should have a proper get-together for all the regulars, be they high-profile or lurkers. Everyone, from novices to occasional solvers to the all-correct Listener élite, is welcome.
Cryptic Crossword Solving Research (Update – Sep 2013)
Problem-solving ability is key to Cryptic Crossword Success
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Researchers:
Dr. Philip Fine and Dr. Kathryn Friedlander, University of Buckingham
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RNIB 3D Crosswords Cup (2013)
RNIB 3D Crosswords Cup – Saturday 12th October
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We are holding a crossword event in Holborn, London in October along with an email competition alongside to raise funds for RNIB Pears Centre which provides a home and outstanding education for youngsters with visual impairment and other complex needs.
Cryptic Crossword Solving Research
A Message from Dr Kathryn Friedlander and Dr Philip Fine
University of Buckingham
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A number of you may have seen some articles last week in the press concerning our crossword research and, in particular, the recorded crossword solving trials we conducted in Buckingham during 2011, which some of you kindly volunteered to assist us in. I’m afraid that (the press being what it is) our research has been rather mangled, and I’d like to set out what the real position is.