Listener Crossword: Dinners

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 London	1978 London	1979 London	No 2500 Birmingham	1980 London
—	—	—	1984 London	—
—	—	1988 London	1989 Harrogate	1990 Cardiff
—	1992 London	1993 Birmingham	1994 Nottingham	1995 Eastbourne
1996 Leeds	1997 Edinburgh	1998 Winchester	1999 York	2000 Paris
2001 Oxford	2002 Derby	2003 Cambridge	2004 Newcastle	2005 Birmingham
2006 Luton	2007 York	2008 Milton Common	No 4000 Birmingham	2009 North Queensferry
2010 Chepstow	2011 Sheffield	2012 Old Harlow

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 and Quizzes

Sometimes the menu has been subjected to a setter’s skills in design or in wordplay. In recent years there have also been quizzes and competitions for the diners. The following table provides some of these; more will follow as they become available. The documents, most of which are PDF files, will open in a separate window.