Your ethical questions answered: can you use word-finders or ask friends or strangers in order to fill those final squares?
One year ago, we reached out to anyone casually interested in cryptic crosswords and beckoned them to take up the perfect pandemic pastime.
In May, a YouGov survey suggested that puzzling activity had more than doubled since the start of lockdown, at least online. The reason is a very simple puzzle to solve. When you are solving, your thoughts are entirely on the puzzle and not on … anything else. Also, the supply of gratification is effectively limitless.
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