Links and Bibliography

Crosswords

Links

AskOxford: a website of the Oxford University Press; includes a monthly prize cryptic crossword and other word games.
The Crossword Centre: high-quality cryptic crosswords, crossword information, books and links to other sites.

Books

D. S. Macnutt, Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword (Swallowtail Books)
Sandy Balfour, Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8) (Atlantic Books)
Any decent large (by which I mean the ones that are a couple of inches thick) dictionary. Chambers Ninth is the bible for many crossword compilers. The Collins English Dictionary is very good too, and of course Oxford have a wide variety which are excellent.

Tessellation

Links

Andrew Crompton’s Crompton Tessellations – about the best, most comprehensive tessellation site out there: and he has extensive links to other tessellators on the web.

Books

Doris Schattschneider, M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (W. H. Freeman)
J. L. Locher, ed. The World of M. C. Escher (Abradale Press)
M. C. Escher, Escher on Escher: Exploring the Infinite (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)

General

Links

Basingstoke Online and Interactive: Community site for the town of Basingstoke. I happen to have an updated-monthly crossword on this site.
Cannon Cinema Basingstoke: not the prettiest, but surely the most influential, most important building in Basingstoke’s history! Bring those memories flooding back! Recall a dying era of REAL cinemagoing, not these modern assembly-line multiplex jobbies!