This page will include links to the Crosswords that regularly appear in the Mensa magazine.

These crosswords have been compiled by Richard Blake who gives permission for us to make them available here.

They are, naturally, cryptic crosswords but with an extra twist. First of all you have to sort out where the clues go. Each puzzle uses a standard 13 x 13 grid. We have reproduced a blank grid here so that you can down load it and print it out.

To download a file that you can print out to get a blank grid Click here

New puzzles will be put up each odd month, with the solution for the grid a month later and the full solution a further month later, at which time a new puzzle will also be loaded. These puzzles will be loaded here 2 years after they appeared in the magazine.

Cyclic symmetry means for example, if the second square in the top row is black, then so is the second to bottom square in the first column, the second to last square in the bottom row and the second from the top in the last column.

For some help with solving Cryptic crosswords, Click here

WARNING ABOUT PRINTING THIS PAGE: If you click on "Printer Friendly Version" hereunder, it will print out not only this page but also the clues, grids and solutions for all the crosswords from January 2006 up to the present; and you probably don't want this. To print out this page only, do a Print as you would normally. Or Cut and Paste the text into your own file, adjust as you wish, then Print.