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Crossword blog: Cracking the Cryptics in real-time on YouTube

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Is cryptic solving a spectator sport? You decide

A few tournaments back, I used these pages to describe the experience of watching its serial champion winning still another Times Crossword Championship:

A samurai in civvies, the figure of Mark Goodliffe compels the gaze as powerfully as his mind commands the stubbornest crossword clue ...

So here we are, finished in seven twenty-nine.

Don’t get too hung up on a single clue. You can waste a lot of time thinking about one clue and end up going round in circles in your head, probably on the wrong track.

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