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2 days ago
Click here to access the print version. Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within grey lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by grey lines. Continue reading...
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2 days ago
From Scooby-Doo to the Dead Sea scrolls, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 What did DB Cooper do in 1971, the only such unsolved crime in the US?2 Which horror stories were first told at the Villa Diodati?3 What is London’s biggest brick bu...
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1 week ago
An anniversary is celebrated and the word ‘biannual’ is shunned in our pick of the best of the broadsheetsIn the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners series. The setter’s name often links to an interview with him or...
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2 weeks ago
A crossword-featuring comedy by a playwright who was also an MP, spy and campaigner. And he wrote the dialogue for the first British talkie …Clutterbuck was first performed at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, in 1946. It seems that there were perhaps five...
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2 weeks ago
The answer to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set you three examples of a word puzzle that illuminates one of the smash hits of theoretical computer science. (To read about this result, the PCP theorem, please check out the original post.)In the puzzl...
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3 weeks ago
We look at historical events that may or may not have a place in puzzles in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic cluesIn the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners series. The setter’s name often links to...
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1 month ago
Today’s puzzle is very much a one-offUnusual things are happening this weekend. For one, I am appearing at the weekend rather than waiting until Monday, though if you are reading this on Monday as usual, the effect will I concede be considerably less...