Crossword blog
The crossword blog looks at the smartest and wittiest clues from all the cryptics. Come and share the joy and frustration of crossword culture
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A Q&A with Paolo Bacilieri, crossword historian in cartoon form
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Seventy-eight years after his death, an old Torquemada puzzle returns, with a hefty prize for the first to solve it. Could you identify both the killers and the victims?
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Bojo, Corbo, and a whole lotta haiku feature in our pick of the best clues from across the broadsheet cryptics
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Is cryptic solving a spectator sport? You decide.
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Once you accept there is no escape from the likes of Donald Trump, at least crosswords can offer an aide-memoire
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Hugh Stephenson rises to the defence of anagrams in Quick puzzles
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In a sister feature to our Meet the Setter series, we find out which words are used in cryptic crossword clues to indicate each of the letters of the alphabet
Crossword roundup: the fuzz and the heat