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Crossword blog: Meet the setter – ScrewThe latest in our series where we turn the tables on the torturers. Under the spotlight this time is Dave Warder, AKA Screw
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Crossword roundup: is it extrovert or extravert, and is it nucular or nuclear?Peculiar spellings take over from more sensible originals, and William Hague finds a glamorous gal pal in the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues
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Crossword blog: what makes a thing 'a thing'?How do you decide whether a word is worthy of being clued?
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Crossword roundup: epaulette regretsA word the Oxford dictionary dislikes, plus the best of the rest of the recent cryptic clues
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prize
Winners of Prize No 27,208
Lizzi Blewett - Illogan, Redruth, Cornwall
David Single - Sherborne, Dorset
Angela Shaw - Swindon
Derek Watts - Lewes
C & K Barnham - Frome
Lizzi Blewett - Illogan, Redruth, Cornwall
David Single - Sherborne, Dorset
Angela Shaw - Swindon
Derek Watts - Lewes
C & K Barnham - Frome
Winner of Genius No 166
Leslie Purkiss, Southend on Sea
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2,344 winners
Tom Locke, Fife
C &C Hinton, Shropshire
Dr Simon J Shaw, Lancashire
Tom Locke, Fife
C &C Hinton, Shropshire
Dr Simon J Shaw, Lancashire
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