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Crossword roundup: can the Guardian’s quick cryptic really ‘save the election’?
A political response to our new puzzle series in our pick of broadsheets’ cryptic clues, the non-military senses of ‘salvo’, and how would you clue ‘hail’? In the sample clues below, ...
Crossword roundup: to fool or not to fool?
How committed are puzzles to providing extra tricks on April Fools’ Day? In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners series . The setter’s name often link...
Crossword column: an experiment reaches the end of the road
The annotated solution bows out gracefully. Plus: Radio 4 delves into the history of the cryptic In 1999, the Guardian published a crossword on its website . A daring move, but that’s the G...
A new Guardian crossword: the Quick Cryptic
Helping you to build up a toolbox of tricks to solve clues, our new Saturday puzzle is a gentle way in for those starting out on cryptic crosswords “I’d like to do cryptic crosswords, but I...
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: hospitals
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we look at strings of letters associated with hospitals In the example clues below, I explain the two parts of each: the definiti...
Crossword roundup: cricket and the changing reputation of salmon
Lesser sung fish and cricketing doldrums feature in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners serie...
Crossword roundup: the words of 2023
They’re sometimes peculiar, but do the various dictionaries’ words of the year pass the Crossword Test? In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners series...
Crossword roundup: where Abba meet the RNLI
An anniversary is celebrated and the word ‘biannual’ is shunned in our pick of the best of the broadsheets In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners ser...
Crossword book club: Clutterbuck by Benn Levy
A crossword-featuring comedy by a playwright who was also an MP, spy and campaigner. And he wrote the dialogue for the first British talkie … Clutterbuck was first performed at Wyndham’s Th...
Crossword roundup: from Waterloo to Peterloo
We look at historical events that may or may not have a place in puzzles in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers ...
A special Guardian cryptic crossword, but who is Hugo?
Today’s puzzle is very much a one-off Unusual things are happening this weekend. For one, I am appearing at the weekend rather than waiting until Monday, though if you are reading this on Mon...
Crossword roundup: there is no ‘real’ Georgie Porgie
Spurious origin stories in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners series . The setter’s name o...
Crossword roundup: rishis, kahunas and other nabobs
We spend a little time in Hawaii in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners series . The setter�...
Crossword book club: Murder Fantastical by Patricia Moyes
There is some slightly dodgy crosswording in a horribly enjoyable tale by the mystery writer behind the Henry Tibbett tales The historian AJP Taylor thought himself above whodunnits. In his boo...
Crossword roundup: the problem with the trolley problem
Thought experiments and lots of cake recipes in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners series . ...
Cryptic crosswords for beginners: money
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we look at cold hard cash In the example clues below, I explain the two parts of each: the definition of the answer, given in BOL...
Crossword roundup: looking forward to by-elections?
Topical references from last year and from the one to come in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues In the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our begin...
Crossword blog: American-style puzzle No 17 – as good as a rest
Another puzzle in our series inspired by the US – along with some tips on how to tackle it Here’s another puzzle in our American-style series , in digital and printable form. Last year,...
Crossword roundup: jacks and herbs and an ex-home secretary
Fun poker trivia, plus a selection of your own botanical clues and some witty wordplay for opera fans in our pick of the best of the broadsheets In the sample clues below, the links take you to...
Crossword blog: time to take stock
Some questions about what we should be doing – or not doing! Some news. The Guardian’s well loved crossword editor Hugh Stephenson – who took over from the first editor John Perkin in 199...
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