Christmas Puzzle Blog Archive
Christmas Puzzle 2014 - Further Corrections
It is the time when many of you will be getting around to submitting your answers and you may wish to take into account some of the posts on the Puzzle Blog that you may not have noticed.
I am indebted to Emma Ness and Mark Spencer for their detailed reviews of this year's Puzzle. They have identified three issues:
- In Q29 'make-up' would have been a better word than 'mascara' for me to have used.
- In 36a the clue _ _ AGS _ _ _ would have been better – the word you may have is very closely related and I will accept the two closely related answers containing AGM or AGS.
- There is an inconsistency within the clues leading to the starting letters for 33b – 36b. I'm sorry to say that I failed to notice a valid 'up' word. My apologies.
In addition a further correction was flagged up on 9th December:
- Q16b: There are too many blanks. The answer should fit into: _ _ STA _ _ _ _
If you need them, updated copies of the Puzzle can be downloaded from the Christmas Puzzle website between now and 25th January.
Have a very happy New Year – I look forward to receiving your entries.
-- Gordon Gray
The downloadable Puzzle has been updated to reflect these corrections where relevant.
Any further corrections will be posted to the blog and to the corrections page.
Christmas Puzzle 2014 - Correction
Question 16b
There are too many blanks. The answer should fit into: _ _ STA _ _ _ _
The downloadable Puzzle has been updated to reflect this correction.
Any further corrections will be posted to the blog and to the corrections page.
Christmas Puzzle 2014
This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.
This, the 24th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 25 January 2015.
Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at www.christmaspuzzle.co.uk. Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.
All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.
Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the corrections page.
Christmas Puzzle 2014 is nearly here!
Here we go again!. The envelopes of Puzzles have gone into the post - a few may arrive on 6 December but, hopefully, most will arrive on your doorsteps on 8 December as promised.
Good luck to you all - enjoy the Puzzle and let's hope there aren't any errors to be found.
This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle will be available to download from midnight tomorrow night and emails will be sent out to everyone that has registered late tomorrow night.
The Puzzle should appeal to people who enjoy solving (former) broadsheet 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 progress.
