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Problematics | The long and the short of growing flowers
This is the week of the Academy Awards, which will be awarded on the very morning…
Problematics | Walk, don’t run
A chestnut of a puzzle that is based on a chestnut among themes — speed and…
Problematics | Five Oscar nominees, five viewers
If you look at old issues of this paper or previous online episodes of Problematics, you…
Problematics | Reluctant recruits go to war
As an occasional setter of cryptic crosswords, I have sometimes composed clues and then forgotten about…
Problematics | Who wins this race?
After a couple of tough puzzles in consecutive weeks, we had a (relatively) easy one last…
Problematics | The fast and the furious
The puzzles in these columns over the last couple of weeks were possibly a little on…
Problematics | Lewis Carroll transported to Haryana
The 192nd birth anniversary of one of the world’s pioneering puzzlers passed during the weekend. Born…
Problematics | How to arrange your bookshelf
The photograph accompanying the first puzzle is of my own bookshelf, clicked years ago. The point…
Problematics | Highs and lows in T20 cricket
I have always found the IPL less interesting for cricket than for the permutations and combinations…