Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. There are plenty of fish to choose from; they often have short names amenable to using in anagram clues, and we tend to find them funny. I don’t think there are any valid anagrams that work at 19 across, which is perhaps a sign of the state of Mr Stimpson’s mind.

My delight in this attention to detail was shared by the pioneering crossword setter Afrit, who first wrote down the golden rule of cryptics: “I need not mean what I say, but I must say what I mean. Grids 54A and 54B (the ones with the Ss) have a preponderance of shorter lights, which matches the type of words that I like to clue, as does Grid 58 (the one with the Ws). Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . Hugh Stephenson is the Guardian's crossword editor and has compiled all of the paper's previous crossword books. Like the maps of a cathedral close that we are given near the beginning, the puzzle takes up most of various pages while a canon and a reverend execute an admirably protracted solve.The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Photograph: Ken Leslie/Alamy View image in fullscreen Salisbury Cathedral … Michael Gilbert taught at the cathedral school before he graduated in law. Lord Peter is fond of a puzzle too; as is often the case in whodunnits, being a solver of crosswords is handy when you are trying to solve a murder.

The Guardian is an award-winning British newspaper that consistently rates as the most-trusted newspaper in the country. When at last we find the important coded message in Have His Carcase, Lord Peter Wimsey delegates the decoding to the whodunnit novelist with whom he has spent much of the story flirting. I’m sure that the symmetries and patterns in the best grids are part of the appeal of crosswords and add to the solver’s motivation to complete a puzzle. This book contains more than 200 crosswords, perfect for a quick – but challenging – test of your deductive skills. Afrit’s puzzles for the Listener often received zero correct entries and a few years after Have His Carcase was published, he set Listener 397, which had a Playfair square in the middle of the grid and made reference to Lord Peter.

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With a wide variety of clues from a vast range of subjects, these crosswords will provide a stern test while still being concise enough to be solved in bite-sized chunks. It’s a quick-crossword version of Victor Meldrew’s attempt to solve a baffling cryptic, which we have looked at here. You seem to treat the various Guardian grids like physical spaces, like your metaphor of the Cluedo secret passageway. In the meantime, our next book is The Twelve Quizzes of Christmas by Frank Paul, which we’ll discuss in November.Test your powers of linguistic deduction and lateral-thinking against 120 classic cryptic crosswords from the Guardian's extensive archives, with the first book in the new Guardian puzzle book series. The notes on your 96th puzzle include the unlikely phrase “This is the last fish-based puzzle in this collection”. But everyone should, of course, read The Giant Jam Sandwich, along with John’s other books, including his illustrations to the works of Edward Lear and James Joyce. In it, I tell the story behind the development of each crossword: how I thought of the theme, the ideas that didn’t made it into print and the unlikely connections that emerged afterwards.