The New York Times Will Shortz's Wittiest, Wackiest Crosswords: 225 Puzzles from the Will Shortz Crossword Collection

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Oh dear, I do seem to be moaning this morning.( Good Morning. Good Moaning – the ‘Allo ‘Allo French Policeman’s syndrome For all newspaper-published crosswords that appear online from Wednesday 10 February 2010 a PDF version will appear beneath the crossword’s title and alongside the Print version and the Blind & PS version. LEA/LEY: Chambers and the OED list three words with these (and other) spellings. The first is the meadow that you mention, and the second is arable land; the quote “The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea” more likely uses the first. Chambers gives different etymology for the two, but in view of the similarity of meaning, I would suspect that confusion is responsible for the convergence on the same group of spellings. eccentricity: in a conic section, the constant ratio of the distance of a point on the curve from the focus to its distance from the directrix (usually represented by e; (geom)’

Atlanta Dave @59 – I thought the same (and given your parenthetical remarks you might want to skip the rest of this post 😉 ) Competition entries for the latest Prize crossword must be received by the first post on the Friday after the puzzle appears. The first five correct entries drawn will win a copy of Guardian Style and Secrets of the Setters. Completed Prize crosswords should be printed out and sent to: The Guardian Crossword, PO Box 6603, Birmingham, B26 3PR or fax to 0121 742 1313. How do I enter the Azed crossword competition? You are able to comment on most crosswords for the first seven days after publication. There is a warning for users. Do not scroll down if you want to avoid the risk of seeing any of the answers. We will not have comments enabled for the Prize, Everyman, Genius or Azed crosswords as these are competitions. What is the blind and PS version? Second downer is re 20a. Although I’m a maths grad and I recognise the “below”, imho it’s wrong to include “e” for eccentricity in a cryptic of this natureI can’t believe I filled in this whole puzzle when I only got 4 and 6 down at the start. The first of those gave me THE in 13a and which with the word count gave me A _ _ _ _ _ (in?) THE _ _ _. which the wordplay helped with, and I inched on from there. True, Janis was a different kettle of fish, although her biggest (posthumous) hit was penned by Kris Kristofferson – there’s a nice version by him and Rita Coolidge. muffin @53 – I would see ‘apply’ (with qm) as one of Paul’s whimsical adjectival constructs, like ‘jetty’ = ‘a bit like a jet’. Fwiw Wiktionary has apply as an alternative spelling of appley. And come to think of it, if stubble can be stubbly, and a bobble can be bobbly, why can’t an apple be apply?

This is designed for blind or partially-sighted users. It is a stripped down text version, which should be easily read by a screen reader. Which crosswords have competitions?It took me a long time to think of looking up the unlikely-looking ARCING, which I couldn’t explain: I looked it up. There are 22 places called Salem in the US, the most famous being the one with the witch trials. It’s also the capital of Oregon and a small town in my own state (Connecticut) I didn’t even know how to find on a map. This web-only prize crossword is published on the first Monday of the month. You can fill it in on theguardian.com and submit your prize entry online.