Crossword editor's update
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Hugh Stephenson reports on the relationship between the Mayor of London, a Scottish PhD student and Picaroon
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Hugh Stephenson reflects on the things one learns from crosswords
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Hugh Stephenson looks back on 12 months that were too hard and too easy
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A bumper crop of puzzle publications is out there to help you into 2017
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Our cryptic crossword solvers seem deeply divided as to whether they have become too difficult or not. Hugh Stephenson looks at some of the evidence.
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Aristotle’s courage has been called into question
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Our straw email poll seems to show that solvers are happy with anagrams in the Quicks (in moderation, at least)
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We tried out anagrams in the Quicks last month; not everyone was exactly happy
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When is an actor an actress, asks Hugh Stephenson
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Ways to make the puzzles fit for purpose
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Hugh Stephenson gives an end-of-year report on the Guardian new crossword website
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The new formats for the online crosswords are clearly causing some of you problems but access to the archive should not be one of them.
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Before the end of this month the Guardian crosswords will have moved into the multi-media world
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Hugh Stephenson explains why, though it's not broke, the crossword site is still being fixed.
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Did you know that some of Britain's Brightest (Young) Brains tackle the Quick crossword?
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'Temporary' Genius arrangements explained and a lovely tale from Toronto, Canada
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Hugh Stephenson celebrates the things that one learns in solving (and editing) crosswords
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Hugh Stephenson: Last month again saw one of those instances where a word has a general meaning in common usage, as well as its technical one.
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Hugh Stephenson: It is wishful thinking to believe that there is only one 'correct' way to spell a word
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Hugh Stephenson: There seems to be support for the view that, in certain circumstances, a koala can happily be called a koala bear.
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Hugh Stephenson: Experts don't like technical words and phrases being used out of context
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Solvers seem to think that something has changed with the Quick crosswords. Hugh Stephenson wonders why
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When do old conventions in cryptic clues become too dated and how soon can new words be accepted, asks Hugh Stephenson
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Many words have specialised definitions but also have looser meanings used in common parlance (and in crosswords)
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Hugh Stephenson: For over 55 years John Graham's puzzles entertained (and educated and informed) generations of Guardian solvers
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C.P. Snow's Two Cultures continue to cause problems with word meanings in crosswords
On setters and setting
On setters and setting