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Clues by Pickles and Grid by Gin The background for this puzzle is an Alan Tunnicliffe photograph of a fox in grass with buttercups. This puzzle by Pickles uses a conventional 7x5x5 grid by Gin and the theme is particularly appropriate for the publication in which it is printed. Letters in the three shaded squares… Read more Hints & Tips December 2022
Clues and Grid by Shark Theme: Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen The winner of the November puzzle is Robin Smith. Review of the November 2022 3D crossword Shark is a setter I don’t know personally, and I’m not sure where to find more Shark puzzles, though I know some have appeared in the Listener… Read more 3D Crossword Solution – November 2022
Clues and Grid by Shark The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph of an underground vault of Middle Eastern appearance. This puzzle by Shark uses an innovative and appropriate grid of 4 square layers widening from 3×3 at the top to 9×9 at the bottom and marks 100 years since a famous… Read more Hints & Tips November 2022
Now is the time for you to start preparing your entries for the 2022 World Championship and the RPM Trophies. We are a small team and are always looking for grids for the Calendar Puzzles and the Extra Puzzles, which is why both challenges require the design of a 3D grid, or indeed, if you… Read more 2022 World Championship & RPM Trophy Competitions
Clues by Vlad and Grid by Aramis Theme: The Sunday Times newspaper The winner of the October puzzle is Julie Allen from Queensland. Review of the October 2022 3D crossword Vlad and Aramis have put forward a theme I knew virtually nothing about, with clues sufficiently difficult to force me into a second session before… Read more 3D Crossword Solution – October 2022
Clues by Vlad and Grid by Aramis The background for this puzzle is a Graham Fox photograph of a sunset over a stretch of water. This puzzle has clues by Vlad and a conventional 7x5x5 grid by Aramis. The puzzle marks the 200th anniversary of a publication. Vlad’s clever clues and Aramis’ elegant grid gradually… Read more Hints & Tips October 2022
Clues by Imogen and Grid by Patch Theme: The Hobbit The winner of the September puzzle is Robin Stephenson of London. Review of the September 2022 3D crossword I quailed when considering Imogen’s September puzzle, for of all the Guardian daily setters, he is the one I often find the most difficult. He was once… Read more 3D Crossword Solution – September 2022
Clues by Imogen and Grid by Patch In a Patch in the ground lived an Imogen. Not a nasty, dirty, wet Patch, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down: it was an Imogen-Patch, and that means a grid… Read more Hints & Tips September 2022
Clues and Grid by Sirius Theme: Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana The winner of the August puzzle is Bobbie Stainthorp of Keswick. Review of the August 2022 3D crossword When beginning to solve Sirius’s August puzzle, I had no idea what the subject was. In my book, that’s a win for the setter before you start.… Read more 3D Crossword Solution – August 2022
Clues and Grid by Sirius The background to this puzzle is a Hubble space telescope photograph of a “celebrity star” on the edge of destruction. This spherical grid commemorates two anniversaries with a common theme (but slightly different words). Both anniversaries are of the demise of a “celebrity star”. The first was some 60 years… Read more Hints & Tips August 2022