Christmas Puzzle 2009 - Time, gentlemen, please
Welcome to this, the nineteenth annual Christmas Puzzle I have set to raise money for charity. So far the Puzzle has raised almost £32,000 for various good causes, including £4,200 last year.
The Puzzle should appeal to people who enjoy solving (former) broadsheet crossword puzzles. You have plenty of time to work on it so don’t expect every answer to be obvious. However, unlike many puzzles that come out around this time of year, this one is designed to help you finish. The Puzzle has an underlying theme so that, just when things start to get a bit tough, you should get more information to help you progress.
Charities
All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity. In a change of policy I have decided that from now on I will donate £500 of the money raised to St Mary’s, Eaton Bray, where I am the Reader, with the remaining money to be distributed equally between six charities - Children’s Adventure Farm Trust, Community Meeting Point Harpenden, Merlin, Rett Syndrome Association UK, Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust, The Children’s Society - all of which have been suggested by Puzzlers who between them have been with the Puzzle for an average of 13 years.
-- Gordon Gray, November 2009
Navigation around the Christmas Puzzle website
Clicking the Christmas Puzzle logo will always bring you back to this home page.
Using the links along the top of the page, you can
- download this year's puzzle
-- (between 8 December 2009 and 24 January 2010) - register to receive a copy of next year's puzzle by email,
- see information about last year's winners and charitable donations,
- view some of your comments on the puzzle from previous years,
- view some unusual words (and their meanings!) from previous puzzles,
- view the rolls of honour for the last 3, 5 and 10 years,
- view your results from previous years.
- Read and comment on the Christmas Puzzle blog.
-- All entries for this year's puzzle should have been returned by Sunday 24 January 2010 --
