This website is aimed at presenting something of an archive of my puzzles from the Listener and perhaps elsewhere, all in forms that can be printed out or tackled online.

 

In addition to this effort, I run a personal blog, rarely updated, and the cryptic crossword blog on the Listener website. The Listener website is not however a suitable site for the puzzles, links and other goodies I intend placing here.

 

Anyway, you will not be surprised to know that I enjoy mucking around on the old interwebby thing here. I do hope you enjoy some of the results of my efforts and indulgences.

ANSWERS ONLINE

 

See verso.net for answers to current Listener puzzle clues (revealed individually, no spoilers).

 

The complete solutions and explanations for all clues are published weekly online (simultaneously with the release of the print edition) on the Listener website.

 

 

An apology

 

Skitey pants?

From time to time I feel I should have adopted an alias for my Listener puzzles as is the custom amongst cryptic crossword setters in the UK. Advertising my real name, a relatively rare one at that, does feel a little immodest in the circumstances. In fact I did intend adopting an alias when I first took on the job and, having procrastinated for a week or so about what it should be, phoned the Listener editor with my decision. This was well before my first puzzle appeared. I wasn't to know it, but back then the puzzle pages were printed weeks before the more topical parts of the magazine. I was surprised then to learn that it had already been printed. Too late. I was out!