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Summer puzzle supplement | Guardian

Delighted to have created a US-style puzzle and “The Most Guardian Crossword Ever” for this. If you missed it, “Most Guardian” is here and US-style is in puz and pdf.

Cat Burglar | Netflix

It’s your standard texaverienne interactive immersive experience experiment.

Death to 2021 | Netflix

Due for release 27 December.

Off-Grid | Podcast

The ‘not really about crosswords’ podcast:

 

Taskmaster | Ebury Books

A treat to test-solve.

Inside Inside No 9 | BBC Sounds

More detail than you could reasonably expect on Inside No 9’s Riddle of the Sphinx and Two Girls, One on Each Knee …

… in this podcast episode.

My other books

Coronavirus, One Year On | Twitter

To help sort my own memories, I’m going to try a daily post of something from a year ago, as a thread.

Going to thread daily one-year old stories, see how long I last. pic.twitter.com/9WyDAJYNZn

— alanconnor (@alanconnor) January 11, 2021

Death To 2020 | Netflix

I was delighted to work on this review of this year.

pic.twitter.com/AfQ5yMKW8l

— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) December 3, 2020

Thursday Murder Club Quiz

I also recommend Richard’s book.

You can get the quizzes by subscribing to this newsletter. My own new book is The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book.

John Dawson obituary | The Guardian

Remembering Chifonie.

• See also: Gordius obituary; How to solve Cryptic Crosswords during Coronavirus