Crossword Archives : Novelty Crosswords

See also these subcategories of the Novelty collection : Mystery Puzzles with missing clues, puzzles with Long Phrases or Dominant Themes, puzzles with Themed Grids where the grid's appearance provides hints towards solving the puzzle, other Novelty Shaped puzzles with or without a bearing on the theme, and of course the Miscellaneous collection.

Date Crossword Size WxH Comments
2005 July 4 "The Accident" 15 OK, so I got another movie title wrong!
2005 June 6 "Progressive Bishop" 15 A mite lighter in the mitre
2005 May 23 "Thirteen Mysteries" 15 A lot of gaps in a skeletal grid
2005 May 9 "Colour Coded B" 15 Reissue of one of my cleverest compositions
2005 April 25 "Rookie Rook" 15 Easier revelations among the crenellations
2005 April 11 "Shapely Treats" 5 x 5 x 5 Smallish three dimensional grid
2005 March 28 "Get Set" 15 Starter's Orders
2005 March 14 "Cosy Netherlands" 15 A couple of long answers with short clues
2005 February 28 "Seven Mysteries III" 15 Actually seven of a larger set
2005 February 14 "Epical II" 15 Epical reworked but still very hard
2005 January 31 "Sowhat" 15 Word grid, loosely themed
2005 January 17 "Seven Mysteries II" 15 How many things come in sevens?
2005 January 3 "Four Mysteries III" 15 Have a tilt at this windmill
2004 December 20 "Sedantics" 15 Word grid ... lots of short words
2004 November 22 "Tripestry" 15 Grid-writing revisited and improved
2004 November 8 "Pedantics" 15 A nice long first clue
2004 October 25 "Blip" 15 Is it all Greek to you?
2004 October 11 "Four Mysteries II" 15 Another patchy fabrication
2004 September 13 "Sick Loop" 15 With a vicious loop of twelve clues
2004 August 30 "Six Mysteries" 15 Quite understated in the clues department!
2004 August 16 "Unlucky 17" 14 x 15 Has a central unclued answer
2004 July 19 "Three Mysteries" 15 missing clues but nice composition
2004 July 5 "Unlucky 12" 14 x 13 Has a central unclued answer
2004 June 21 "Slick Dances" 15 Another literary puzzle
2004 June 7 "With Apologies" 15 The grid artwork provides the theme
2004 May 24 "Law to Resign" 11 Tiny puzzle with a dominant clue
2004 May 10 "Hyper Frame" 5x5x5x5 Prepare for the next dimension!
2004 April 26 "Ashes To ... " 15 A familiar shape reappears
2004 April 12 "Replacement Cube" 6 x 6 x 6 The 3-D journey continues ...
2004 March 15 "Spanner" 15 ten grid-spanning answers!
2004 March 1 "Back to Basics" 15 It had to be done
2004 February 2 "Succulent Cube" 4 x 4 x 4 An introductory 3-D crossword.
2004 January 19 "Big Chain" 16 Big mess! Works like "Linkblot"
2004 January 5 "Squares" 15 Unchlessness is its only virtue
2003 December 22 "Opposites" 15 Another form of clue-shortage
2003 December 8 "Central Spot" 15 the visual effect nearly worked
2003 November 10 "Digger's Belief" 15 early effort in awkward grid
2003 October 13 "Four Mysteries" 15 somewhat akin to "Two Mysteries"
2003 September 15 "Theatre Victory" 13 silly stuff featured herein
2003 September 1 "Bug Briefly" 13 mean and nasty but with some style
2003 August 18 "Cattle Pony" 13 small grid with some big answers
2003 August 4 "Ply Cane" 15 tricky clues but a dense grid
2003 July 21 "Emerging Talent" 15 A literary puzzle
2003 June 23 "Beat Ximenes" 15 The order of attack is somewhat dictated
2003 June 2 "Star" 17 * Star shaped. Shameless word twisting
2003 May 19 "Two Mysteries" 15 two missing clues, one dubious phrase
2003 May 12 "Stand & Deliver" 13 tricky interwoven puzzle
2003 May 5 "Regents' Muse" 15 more visuals, plus rhyme
2003 Apr 28 "Second Course" 13 themed, with phrases
2003 Apr 14 "Colour Coded" 15 the pretty colours are not just for show
2003 Apr 7 "Sub Icon" 15 A Pale Imitation
2003 Mar 24 "LSD (ver C)" 15 Don't take too much.
2003 Mar 17 "Target Cheer" 15 This should've been sponsored!
2003 Mar 10 "Unlucky 13" 13 The first of the single-mystery puzzles
2003 Feb 24 "Icon" 15 Women's Liberation
2003 Feb 10 "Regime Tackle" 7 x 12 some global politics
2003 Feb 3 "Linkblot" 29 x 11 ...daisy chains and laughs...
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