Which writers do you wish had been around to set crosswords?
Seldom does the solver find the same word appearing twice in a completed grid. Not so with Hob’s recent Saturday Independent prize puzzle:
15ac More interested in bric-a-brac addict? (9)
[ synonym for ‘bric-a-brac’ + synonym for ‘addict’ ]
17d Stranger wrecked our cruise (9)
[ anagram of ‘our cruise’ ]
‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
19d The Guardian writers mostly set without expectation (8)
[ synonym for ‘The Guardian’ + example of ‘writers’, surrounded by most of ‘set’ ]
[ US + PENS, inside SE ]