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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2025</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2025/12/christmas-puzzle-2025</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 35th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 25 January 2026.</p>
<p>Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.uk</a>. Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
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<p><em>Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</em></p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2024</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2024/12/christmas-puzzle-2024</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 34th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 5 February 2025.</p>
<p>Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.uk</a>. Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
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<p><em>Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</em></p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2023</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2023/12/christmas-puzzle-2023</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 33rd annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 28 January 2024.</p>
<p>Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.uk</a>. Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
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<p><em>Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</em></p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2022</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2022/12/christmas-puzzle-2022</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 32nd annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 29 January 2023.</p>
<p>Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.uk</a>. Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
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<p><em>Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</em></p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2021</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2021/12/christmas-puzzle-2021</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 31st annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 30 January 2022.</p>
<p>Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.uk</a>. Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
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<p><em>Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</em></p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2020</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2020/12/christmas-puzzle-2020</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 30th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 24 January 2021.</p>
<p>Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.uk</a>. Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<hr class="required" />
<p><em>Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</em></p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Bonus Puzzle No 1 2020 - A secret catechism</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2020/03/bonus-puzzle-no-1-2020-secret-catechism</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>As regular puzzlers will know I have set <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">Christmas Puzzle</a> to raise money for charity for 29 years. Puzzlers have been very generous with donations so it's time I did something for you. I am most grateful to Bill Brakes and others for the suggestion that I should set one or more bonus Puzzles specially to help puzzlers through this period of enforced isolation. I have responded to the request as quickly as I could - in my haste to issue the Puzzle, I haven't had it independently checked, so you may have to look out on this website for any <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a>. In responding to Bill's request I was fortunate that back in 2003 I had started to prepare a puzzle that remained on my computer unused. In truth I didn't set it as a Christmas Puzzle as I wasn't particularly happy with the way the story was progressing &ndash; still in these strange times, needs must!</p>
<p>Gordon will be emailing Puzzles to those who have previously <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/register.asp">registered</a>, so these should be received very soon. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.uk</a>.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2019</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2019/12/christmas-puzzle-2019</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 29th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 26 January 2020.</p>
<p>Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.uk</a>. Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<hr class="required" />
<p><em>Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</em></p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2018 - Minor Corrections</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[<h3>Question 11</h3>
<p>A lower case 'c' had appeared, incorrectly as if out of nowhere.</p>
<h3>Question 14</h3>
<p>The hyphen at the end of 14b should be an underscore.</p>
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<p>The downloadable Puzzle has been updated to reflect these corrections.</p>
<p>Any further corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 17:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2018</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2018/12/christmas-puzzle-2018</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.co.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 28th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 27 January 2019.</p>
<p>Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.uk</a>. Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<hr class="required" />
<p><em>Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</em></p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2017</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2017/12/christmas-puzzle-2017</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.co.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 27th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 28 January 2018.</p>
<p>Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.co.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.co.uk</a>. Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<hr class="required" />
<p><em>Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.co.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</em></p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2016</title>
  <link>https://christmaspuzzle.uk/blog/2016/12/christmas-puzzle-2016</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.christmaspuzzle.co.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="http://www.eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 26th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 29 January 2017.</p>
<p>Gordon has posted Puzzles to those on distribution list, so these should be received in the next few days. Anyone else who would like a copy of the Puzzle can access it from the web at <a href="http://www.christmaspuzzle.co.uk/">www.christmaspuzzle.co.uk</a>.  Alternatively puzzles can be collected from St Mary's Eaton Bray.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<hr class="required" />
<p><em>Any corrections will be posted to the blog and to the <a href="http://www.christmaspuzzle.co.uk/corrections.asp">corrections</a> page.</em></p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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