About the Setter
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. In 2024 David and his wife Linda secured a weekly cryptic and quick slot in The SMH and The Age. David has also been published in the NYT, the UK's FT and Church Times.-
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The Stickler Weekly 54 Solution
It’s often said that the job of a setter is to entertain solvers, provide them with a diversion that evokes a sense of pleasure during and after solving. For some solvers, entertainment is all that matters, that is, it doesn’t … Continue reading
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The Stickler Weekly 54
The Stickler for this week is now available. Please select your preferred solving format. The solution to this puzzle will appear next week. Clue Hints for The Stickler Weekly 54 Overseas Help for The Stickler Weekly 54 Solution … Continue reading
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The Stickler Weekly 54 Clue Hints
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The Stickler Weekly 54 Overseas Help
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The Stickler Weekly 53 Solution
Everyone makes mistakes. We know this and put mechanisms, procedures and safeguards in place to minimise them, but sometimes circumstances thwart our best preventative measures. Crossword setters suffer the same lapses as everyone else and rely on various means to … Continue reading
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The Stickler Weekly 53
Check out my post that talks about the first year of The Stickler Weekly here. The Stickler for this week is now available. Please select your preferred solving format. The solution to this puzzle will appear next week. Clue … Continue reading
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The Stickler Weekly 53 Clue Hints
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The Stickler Weekly 52 Solution
What kind of solver are you? A few of us from the Australian Crossword Club meet occasionally for lunch at the Harold Park Hotel to fill in the time between the official ACC functions every November. We don’t talk about … Continue reading
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The Stickler Weekly – One Year Down
One year down. How many to go, I wonder? The crossword landscape in general in Australia hasn’t changed at all over the last year and newspapers continue to be published, albeit in a very skinny form. I’m always looking for … Continue reading