Mark’s Blog

I contribute to a collaborative blog called fifteensquared (under the name mhl) where each day people explain the clues for the Guardian, Observer, Independent, and Financial Times crosswords, as well as a number of more difficult and specialized crosswords. This is a great way to improve at cryptic crosswords – each day you have your [...]

This post discusses a script that converts one frequently used crossword file format into another one with the advantage that it can be loaded into a free software crossword client. The brilliant cryptic crossword in The Independent is available for free online, but only in the form of a Java applet, generated with the non-free [...]