Has the Guardian crossword become generally harder or easier over the 90+ years of its history? Chris Wheadon looks for answers in this study and finds a trend that can be attributed partly to changes in setters’ changing styles and partly to our changing expectations of what type of clues are acceptable in a crossword. […]
Thanks to the lovely people at Splinter Design, you can watch my thoughts about taking your first steps into solving cryptic crosswords as part of the BBC’s IDEAS project, a series of short films explaining interesting things in entertaining ways. Click here to watch the film on the BBC’s website.
Meanwhile, click here for a minute of the wonderful Georgie Fuller, with me audible on organ & bass in the background. Enjoy!
In case you missed it last year, click here to see the brilliant Mark Goodliffe (aka Mr Magoo) solving one of my puzzles in real time – a rare honour, as he’s much better known as a champion solver of the Times – with a classic penny-dropping moment at 12:15. Not that Mark managed to […]
A couple of seasonal entertainments for you, recorded in 2016 and 2017 at benefit concerts for the very wonderful Ditchling Museum of Arts & Crafts … enjoy! Seasonal 251s White Christmas