When its future there seemed in doubt, MP Peter Robinson tabled an early-day motion … The big one is the Listener, which started life in 1930 in the BBC’s cerebral magazine of the same name and moved to Saturday’s Times when the magazine ceased to exist. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Europe Peter Robinson, former first minister and champion of difficult crosswords. There’s also a box with points of interest from the world of crosswords, if you’re interested in that sort of thing, which – since you’re reading these words – you surely are.
The setter known locally as Enigmatist is approaching his tenth anniversary as temporary editor, and explicitly invites us solvers to pester him “at any time” with emailed queries about the puzzles, which are approaching 1,700 in number. Next up, the lively Inquisitor, in the weekend edition of the i newspaper. While they work their way through the clues, solvers can head over to Big Dave’s solvers blog to find out a bit about the setter and get some useful hints – nothing more than hints, mind, as this is one of the few puzzles to currently offer a physical prize, by which I mean a digital book token. (That’s three different puzzles they’re not that insane.)Įach newspaper has harder and easier weeks but the gentlest way in for the terrified is probably Enigmatic Variations in the Sunday Telegraph.
Already this year, I’ve been asked to regard the grid as a music box and pick out a tune, see it as a box of chocolates, and to replace the contents of some cells with the ♈s and ♒︎s of heavenly bodies. Yes: much of the time, the filled grid is scaffolding for an endgame. … and slowly fill some squares, remembering whatever the rubric has warned you about, because most likely those misprints will spell out some sort of secret instruction for your next challenge. Chambers is hot stuff.- Philip Pullman March 30, 2021
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