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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