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In English there is often more than one 'correct' way to spell a word, which is grist to the crossword setter's mill.
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Hugh Stephenson recalls the major contribution made to our crosswords by a relatively unknown American
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Hugh Stephenson: Webster and his Dictionary must take responsibility for creating American English, not the Pilgrim Fathers
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Hugh Stephenson: A new book traces how English developed to become the perfect language for the modern cryptic crossword
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Hugh Stephenson: Our crossword editor explores the pitfalls of globalised cuisine for cryptic clue writers
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Hugh Stephenson: Guardian solvers seem to like a mixture of harder and easier puzzles
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Hugh Stephenson: some solvers are finding that the Quicks seem easier than they were
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Hugh Stephenson:The moment seems to have come for a crossword rethink on the treatment of acronyms
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Hugh Stephenson: Has the time come to change the BBC from (1,1,1) to (3)?
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Hugh Stephenson: 'Keep jargon at bay' is the message from Guardian solvers
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Hugh Stephenson: Ed Miliband makes it in the Cryptic ... while the Quick meanwhile makes it in the US
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Hugh Stephenson: ... but may it be a bad year for the crossword gremlins
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Hugh Stephenson: Alternative spellings are messing things up in the crossword kitchen
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Hugh Stephenson : How far can dictionaries alone decide on meanings and spellings in crosswords, asks Hugh Stephenson
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Hugh Stephenson: Online dictionaries are beginning to undermine traditionally printed ones. When does a word become legitimate for crosswords, asks Hugh Stephenson
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Hugh Stephenson: August had more than its share of problems, but Alan Connor's new blog has arrived
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Hugh Stephenson: Changes to the crossword archive search tool should make it easier to find puzzles by your favourite setters
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You can still hear the Guardian's best-loved crossword setter talk to Kirsty Young on Desert Island Discs
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The Quick crossword has been taken to task on its grasp of European geography
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A common (though meaningless) abbreviation of a well-known saying has been causing irritation to our crossword solvers
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Hugh Stephenson: As Kate became the Duchess of Cambridge an anagram strangely appeared in two places on the same day
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Hugh Stephenson goes back over some of the last month's complaints
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Araucaria, who has been setting crosswords for the Guardian for over half a century, celebrated his 90th birthday last month.
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A solver asks whether Araucaria overlooked a couple of relevant rivers in a January puzzle
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Hugh Stephenson hopes that 2011 will be problem free on the crossword front but offers a couple of tips that may help you round snags that can occur
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The crosswords treat acronyms as ordinary words but how should clues indicate the length of initials that are not acronyms, asks Hugh Stephenson
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Hugh Stephenson: Some solvers claim that Americanisms are beginning to colonialise the Guardian's crosswords. In my view the crosswords cannot be narrowly nationalistic
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Chambers has traditionally been the crossword setter's dictionary of choice, but Hugh Stephenson puts in a good word for the Oxford Dictionary of English as a solvers' friend
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Hugh Stephenson has been getting complaints that using the internet to help solve clues is somehow unfair but he begs to differ
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Hugh Stephenson on getting involved with testing the Guardian's crossword app, more on cathodes and anodes and a question of anonymity
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Hugh Stephenson reflects this month on Greek gods and electric terminals – and some more on cheating at crosswords
Wynne's winner
This year marks the centenary of a publishing event in New York that has given all cruciverbalists cause for celebration.