Sorry. Family lunch today. Hope it goes well.

Sorry to hear it

Thx Twm

Apologies to users of fifteensquared.net. The blog for my Indy puzzle finally went up at 18.09 and at 18.10 the site crashed! Divine judgment on PM, methinks.

Collins gives an alternative:

'That chastity oath of hers was an act of arrant lunacy, Joanna.'
Penman, Sharon HERE BE DRAGONS

I am expecting you to whizz through this in record time

Cryptic crossword No 3,310 · MyCrossword Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,310 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 34 clues by PostMark. Published Sun 12 Apr 2026. Features annotated solutions and special instructions. Free to solve online.

New PM quiptic (I think!) puzzle on my crossword.co.uk

Sample clues:

Horrible overdraft, evidence of debts (6)

Slices of toast older sis prepared (8)

Interrogate one charged following hunt (8)

www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3310

A great regret is that I did not learn from my father who used to wrestle with Araucaria in the Guardian. It's just one of those things that comes with experience - any 225 blog will reveal that solvers are always encountering (to them) new things including both abbreviations and instructions.

Your problem might be that the puzzle only goes up to 27?

Salt's is very nice. Did that this morning.

Weekend crossword for Apr 4th 2026 A weekend crossword based on the week’s news

Pleased to appear as Rowland with today's Economist cryptic.

Sample clues:

Who can rescue Corporation lacking shine? Perhaps Englishman can (4,7)

Nothing's lost by bombing another capital (6)

Action Man recently lost, urchin plays with rocks (5,6)

www.economist.com/interactive/...

One of your crosswords, normal?

I'd add Alia to your Guardian list

That's a (pleasant) surprise given it came out on Tuesday. I shall try to join you.

That's nice. I shall try to join you.

Sorry. That should read rough and unpromising ...

Likewise. I was hoping to get into Issue 4 but fear I won't get past my assigned editor who is both tough and uncompromising!

Someone in a biplane with a banner always seemed rather classy to me ...

Cryptic crossword No 3,225 · MyCrossword Solve Cryptic crossword No 3,225 on MyCrossword. 15x15 grid with 36 clues by PostMark. Published Tue 17 Mar 2026. Features annotated solutions. Free to solve online.

New PM puzzle out on www.mycrossword.co.uk.

Sample clues:

First sign of slug? Yellowish-green trails (5)

Frenchman opens premises offering cut fish (6)

Given costs, club breaks up (9)

www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/3225

Super puzzle and congrats on your milestone!

Congrats on the milestone

Weekend crossword for Mar 14th 2026 A weekend crossword based on the week’s news

Pleased to appear as Rowland for the third time with the Economist crossword. Sample clues:

Quebec, say, favouring their own wine these days (8)

New love, cycling with setter, uncovered romance perhaps (9)

Speaker's brought up matter of toast? (5)

www.economist.com/interactive/...

Oof!

Very enjoyable - with a couple of tricky words/parses. Some fun topical surfaces too.

Ah! Well done. So you are Pavo! Congrats.

I have presented you with far easier ones than that and you have told me they are impossible 🤣

Mind you, you're a braver man than me to take on a live solve. Chapeau.

Yep. A lovely chap ... but I am astounded he managed to solve and parse 5d!

By chance, I did spot that ...

One of just 7 to appear on the site yesterday ...

No you haven't. One of the crusty old setters, in my book...