Crossword blog: a crossword can be 30 worlds in miniature

I can recommend two books, which have reminded me to slow down and savour my crosswords

A little sentence can hold a world.

All through the house, colour, verve, improvised treasures in happy but anomalous coexistence.

One morning during the spring after it happened I picked up The New York Times and skipped directly from the front page to the crossword puzzle, a way of starting the day that had become during those months a pattern, the way I had come to read, or more to the point not to read, the paper.