Listener Crossword: Dinners

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Each year, usually in February or March, a Dinner is held, open to all setters and to some solvers as well. For all recent dinners, and some earlier ones, a report has been included with the Annual Statistics.

Dinner Reports

These are in PDF format. Select from the table below. (You will need to use the “Back” button to return to this menu.)

19771978 1979No 25001980
1984
1988 19891990
1992199319941995
1996199719981999 2000
20012002200320042005
200620072008No 40002009
2010    

Solver Silver Salver and Ascot Gold Cup

These are presented at each dinner to the most successful solver and the puzzle adjudged best in the preceding year. Full details are available at the awards page.

Dinner Menus

Sometimes the menu has been subjected to a setter’s skills in design or in wordplay. The following table provides some of these; more will follow soon. The scanning is being experimented with, to find a suitable trade-off between file size and quality. The format is not ideal for printing. See the two later tables if printing is required.

1989Front
No 3000FrontInside
1992Front

The following are not scanned and so can be read and printed normally.

1994Menu, Programme & Puzzle Solution
2005Menu and Programme  
2006Alternative Menu Solutions
2007QuizAnswer sheetSolutions
2008QuizAnswer sheetSolutions
No 4000Special Puzzle Solution
No 4000Competition winner Solutions
2009Quiz Answer sheet
2009Solutions Comments
2010Quiz Answer sheet
2010Solutions Comments

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1989Front
No 3000FrontInside
1992Front

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1989Front
No 3000FrontInside
1992Front

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