Ever wondered about those other crosswords you see in the weekend papers: the ones with no black squares and special instructions?
They often sit right next to the normal crossword. But they look different. Bars instead of black squares. And a preamble announcing that some fundamental understanding of crosswords does not apply: for example, maybe every clue contains a deliberate misprint.
Some readers have suggested that 2021 is a good time for them to finally try to make sense of one of these things. But … aren’t they all GCHQ levels of near-impossibility?
Chambers is hot stuff.
That this House recognises that the Listener crossword, which appears in The Times newspaper every Saturday, (i) is the most challenging and imaginatively devised cryptic crossword currently published in a national newspaper and (ii) gives much pleasure to thousands of devoted solvers; notes with concern that the editor of the Times plans to discontinue this historic crossword from September 1997; and urges him to reconsider his decision, thereby ensuring that the Listener crossword continues to be published well into the next millennium.
Get Chambers Dictionary, probably in app form
Also get Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary, of which more here
Make sure you’ve got plenty of time
Use a pencil …
… with a rubber on the end
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