The setter-cum-surgeon talks cardiology and Kreuzworträtseln with Boris Becker and we ponder Dutch crosswords
When we talked to the sparkling setter Philistine here as part of our Meet the Setter series, the full-time surgeon and part-time writer told us: “I like to keep my ‘careers’ separate, hence the feeble attempt at preserving some anonymity.”
Having previously read his prose, Philistine fans (philistiniphiles?) can now hear the setter’s euphonious voice talking to Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles on Radio 4’s Saturday Live (iPlayer or mp3), accompanied by the puzzle he set for the programme, which operates as a taster for the curious:
Some of the clues are national-newspaper standard, others a little bit easier. Some of them were actually designed by other people – I thought they were lovely as a way of giving people a taste of what can happen.
10ac Primarily, inflammation in mother’s breasts (8)
@BBCRadio4#saturdaylive cryptic crosswords were big features of my Dutch childhood. Father did the NRC newspaper crossword every weekend
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