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Crossword blog: Boatman teaches the secrets of setting
As part of a year of crossword celebration, the Guardian setter Boatman is running cryptic masterclasses2013 is the centenary year for the crossword and the celebrations are already under way. We'll...
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Crossword roundup: Creme franglais
Alan Connor finds Noel Edmonds, DNA and mixed tongues in his pick of the week's best - and least omnishambolic - cryptic cluesThe news in cluesOne tip for solvers of the baroque Listener crossword is...
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Crossword blog: help solve the missing Wodehouse clues no 4
Can you help Lord Uffenham solve the cryptic clues for which Wodehouse gave no answers?Welcome to our ongoing attempt to solve the cryptic clues for which PG Wodehouse gave no answers. In the novel...
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Crossword roundup: April fools' clues
Alan Connor finds that all is not as it seems in his pick of the week's best – and most foolish – cryptic cluesThe news in cluesWhen I started out solving crosswords, I would sometimes look away from...
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Crossword blog: The Crossword Centenary roadshow
Guardian setter Paul has been on tour, sharing the cryptic love. Alan Connor finds out moreThe crossword is approaching its 100th birthday. I caught up with Guardian setter Paul, who has been touring...
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Crossword roundup: to catch a lion
Alan Connor finds classical composers and narrative devices in his pick of the week's best – and most hitchcockian – cryptic cluesThe news in cluesA timely piece of medical advice from Tees in...
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Crossword blog: do you have to be clever to solve cryptics?
John Humphrys worries that his inability to solve cryptic crosswords says something about his intelligence. Is he right?Those who frequently grapple with Enigmatist's puzzles may sometimes wonder about...
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Crossword roundup: True blue clues
Alan Connor finds the spirit of Thatcherism in his pick of the best – and most divisive – recent cryptic cluesThe news in cluesIn Tuesday's Independent, Radian suggested that the move from the Culture,...
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Crossword blog: help solve the missing Wodehouse clues no 5
Can you help Lord Uffenham solve the cryptic clues for which Wodehouse gave no answers?Welcome back to our ongoing battle with PG Wodehouse's cryptic clues. The 1956 novel Something Fishy repeatedly...
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Crossword roundup: feebs, dweebs, geeks and freaks
Alan Connor finds a plethora of nerdery in his pick of the week's best – and most technical – cryptic cluesThe news in cluesUnlike the other broadsheets, the Times has a strict ban on living people in...
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Crossword blog: help solve the missing Wodehouse clues no 6
Can you help Lord Uffenham solve the cryptic clues for which Wodehouse gave no answers?We're approaching the end of our war with the cryptic clues in the PG Wodehouse novel Something Fishy. Like in...
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Crossword roundup: You're retiring early
Alan Connor finds record-breaking rudeness and corporate evasion in his pick of the week's best – and most optimally leveraged – cryptic cluesThe news in cluesWhen Nigel Farage responded to Ken...
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Crossword blog: help solve the missing Wodehouse clues – bonus edition
Can you help solve the real-life cryptic clue for which PG Wodehouse had no answer?Thanks for your most recent thoughts about the clues in the PG Wodehouse novel Something Fishy.Before we take stock of...
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Crossword roundup: cigarettes and alcohol
Alan Connor finds a double whisky and a package of Luckies in his pick of the week's best – and most Draper-friendly – cryptic cluesCluing coincidenceOn Wednesday, two setters seemed to have a wee...
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Crossword blog: PG Wodehouse and the missing cryptic clues
How did we do at solving the unanswered Wodehouse clues?Thanks for your help solving the clue which stumped PG Wodehouse.By the 1940s, Wodehouse was falling out of love with the Times puzzle. In 1934,...
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Crossword roundup: apes do it, bats do it …
Alan Connor finds a malodorous menagerie in his pick of the week's best – and most bullish – cryptic cluesThe news in cluesIn the Independent on Sunday prize puzzle, setter eXternal evoked the...
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Crossword blog: Don Manley's 50th crossword birthday
Alan Connor talks to Pasquale as he celebrates five decades of setting puzzlesAs we gear up to celebrate 100 years of crosswords there is another, more personal anniversary. On 20 May 1963 Don Manley –...
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Crossword roundup: get cape wear cape solve
Alan Connor finds responsible bankers and mischievous superheroes in his pick of the week's best – and most comic – cryptic cluesThe news in cluesAmong the many Chelsea-related answers (EMBANKMENT,...
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Crossword blog: our answers to PG Wodehouse's fishy cryptic clues
Wodehouse asked them, but they remained unanswered – until now. Here are our crowdsourced solutionsSix clues. No answers. In the novel Something Fishy, Wodehouse seemed to have fallen out of love with...
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Crossword roundup: talking about walking
Alan Connor finds music old and new in his pick of the week's best – and most perambulatory – cryptic cluesThe news in cluesA double dose of musical topicality in the Independent this week. Across the...
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