The Stickler Weekly is taking a week off due to illness. I’m on a tight production schedule and a bout of sinusitis has provided no time to get it done.
Thanks everyone for your continuing support.
The Stickler Weekly will return next week.
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David Stickley has been writing crosswords professionally since 1995. His cryptic puzzle, The Stickler, reached number 4786 before being axed in July 2013 due to cutbacks. David has been published in the NYT and the UK's FT.-
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get well soon David
to paraphrase one of your other devoted followers
& re your comments with last weeks solution – “what he said”
Feel for you. Take care and look forward to your welcome return.
further thoughts David
Notwithstanding the Boxed Set, times like this have you ever considered having on stand-by a catalogue of earlier puzzles, may further test us, perhaps even take us to places we have never been with you!
Richard, why not have a go at some of the cryptics from The Nation while we’re waiting for David to recuperate? They’re linked at thenationcryptic.blogspot.com. Since they’re American, they hew more closely to the Ximinean ideal. You might also try the National Post puzzles from Cox and Rathvon (American constructors, Canadian newspaper). Falcon blogs them at natpostcryptic.blogspot.com.
Just noticed this Braze. Many thanks.
Wouldn’t be traitorous would it? Nah, guess not!