2021 may be a good year for that minority pursuit, the US cryptic crossword
You can get cryptic crosswords in the US – but you have to know where to look. As of 1947, you were guaranteed some quality puzzling time if you bought a copy of the weekly news magazine the Nation. Its early cryptics were created by the former cryptanalyst Frank Lewis, who acquired a taste for the British style of puzzle at – where else? – Bletchley Park.
And he did not just create its early puzzles: Lewis set weekly for the Nation from 1947 until 2009. In his last couple of years, there was a suggestion that the puzzle appear only fortnightly, but that was swiftly quashed by reader complaints.
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