RESTARTS: [ ACROSS LITE][ PDF]
PROGRAMS: [Across Lite] [Adobe Reader]
Who’s up for a restart? You don’t have to all raise your hands at once. Sheesh! Anyway, wishing you the best for ’21. Stay safe out there.
Resolutions for the Biz Quig? Oh, I have exactly one. But first a brief story.
Now, we all had our COVID-projects; mine was solving the Listener (with big-time assistance from my friend Eric LeVasseur). This is the weekly Times of London themed, holy-crap-hard cryptic. Think sort of like Henry and Emily’s monthly WSJ puzzle, only make it substantially more arcane and challenging. Like however nasty you’re thinking it is to solve, you’re not thinking hard enough, keep going. The Listeners require a lot of solving tools as well as doing copious research to get one finished. Anyway, I have given them a go in the past, and sort of set myself the modest goal of completing just one a year, which I have done for the last four years. Well, I ramped up my attempts in ’20, and while I didn’t get them all, I did manage to go (how’s this for poetry?) 20-for-52, and am currently on a 7-week streak. Hold your applause.
My resolution (okay, goal) for 2021 is to go 52/52. Watch this space.
Thanks to everyone who chipped in this past drive. And thanks for all the notes, it means a lot. If you haven’t got your bonus puzzles yet, let me know. As promised, our one randomly selected donor is Penn Holderness. Penn will get a subscription to the indie puzzle yet to be determined as an additional thank you.
Looking for more puzzles this upcoming year? The Hub Crossword (Sunday puzzles by me and Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon) and Marching Bands year six have begun. So if that To Do list needs even more puzzles, you know what to do.
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
Thanks for providing some fun puzzles during this rather bleak year. I enjoyed this one quite a lot.
Wishing you and your family all the best for 2021.
10 years of solving your crossword puzzles. i Might have done about 2000 of your puzzles. Anyone else i’ve done over 2000, has to be Merl Reagle,Stanley Newman, Henry Hook, Frank Longo, Cox and Rathvon, etc. That is a whole of lot of solving we are talking about. Anyway, 2021, the year the SOLVERS are going to have to UNITE in force or just get treated like doormats by the media. All i have to say.
Fun puzzle, Brendan, as always. Thank you so much. Wishing you a wonderful New Year!
Wishing you a happy and healthy 2021. Thank you for making Monday and Thursday a little more special.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that “New one on Thursday.” was a cut-and-paste typo and that you’re not planning to take this Monday off.
Thanks for all the puzzles, past and future, Biz Quig!