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.)

1977 1978 1979 No 2500 1980
1984
1988 1989 1990
1992 1993 1994 1995
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
2006 2007 2008 No 4000 2009
2010 2011      

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.

1989 Front
No 3000 Front Inside
1992 Front

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

1994 Menu, Programme & Puzzle   Solution
2005 Menu and Programme    
2006 Alternative Menu   Solutions
2007 Quiz Answer sheet Solutions
2008 Quiz Answer sheet Solutions
No 4000 Special Puzzle   Solution
Competition winner   Solutions
2009 Quiz   Answer sheet
Solutions   Comments
2010 Quiz   Answer sheet
Solutions   Comments
2011 Quiz   Answer sheet
Solutions   Comments

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1989 Front
No 3000 Front Inside
1992 Front

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1989 Front
No 3000 Front Inside
1992 Front

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