Christmas Puzzle 2020

Thirty Years and It's No Joke

This year marks the 30th anniversary of my Christmas Puzzle. The Puzzle should appeal to people who enjoy solving quality newspaper crossword puzzles and, unlike many puzzles that come out around this time of year, this one is designed to help you finish - the Puzzle has an underlying theme so that, just when things start to get a bit tough, you should get more information to help you. So far, the Puzzle has raised £98,900 for various good causes, including £7,500 last year.

Increased prize money – Every entrant could be a winner!
Everyone who enters will be entered into a draw to win one of four prizes, each of £10. In addition, I will award three prizes each of £50 to the three highest scorers; if there are more than three potential winners I will arrange a draw.

Charities
I will forward all the money you donate, except for the prize-money, to charity. This year there is a good blend of charities supporting needy people locally, nationally and internationally. The money will be distributed equally between St Mary's, Eaton Bray, where I am the Reader, and four other charities – Hearing dogs for deaf people, Home for Good, Mission Mozambique and Spark. All the charities have been nominated by Puzzlers from the UK. I do hope you will be generous in your donations, supporting the work of these charities.

If you would like to be emailed the next puzzle when it becomes available, please Register to receive future Puzzles by email.

-- Gordon Gray, November 2020

Navigation around the Christmas Puzzle website

Clicking the Christmas Puzzle logo will always bring you back to this home page.

Using the links along the top of the page, you can

• download this year's puzzle
  -- See also corrections --  4 corrections identified to date 
  -- Corrections of note will also be posted to comments in the blog, and to twitter.
• register to receive a copy of all future puzzles by email,
• see information about last year's winners and charitable donations,
• view some of your comments on the puzzle from previous years,
• view some unusual words (and their meanings!) from previous puzzles,
• view the rolls of honour for the last 3, 5, 10 and 20 years,
• view your results from previous years.
• Read and comment on the Christmas Puzzle blog.

-- All entries for this year's puzzle should be returned by Sunday 24 January --