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He is one of only four setters to have been on the regular teams of all five quality newspapers (The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent and Financial Times). He holds the Guinness Record for the Longest Published Crossword – at 8 feet long, because Onsworld Ltd were unable to publish the whole 24 ft puzzle.
While there are plenty of word games available to play on Facebook (Words with Friends, Scrabble, etc.), the crossword puzzle genre hasn't been as lucky. That all changes today, however, as ...
On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir , then a senior intelligence officer ...
After the publication of the first 'Paul' Guardian crossword on 19 April 1995, Halpern would supplement his crossword pay with full-time jobs, including a reporter on the East Grinstead Courier and from 1999 as a puzzle editor for Puzzler Media Ltd. All the time John was looking to get more crosswords published, across more UK national ...
Young Telegraph was a weekly section of The Daily Telegraph published as a 14-page supplement in the weekend edition of the newspaper. Young Telegraph featured a mixture of news, features, cartoon strips and product reviews aimed at 8–12-year-olds. It was edited by Damien Kelleher (1993–1997) and Kitty Melrose (1997–1999).
Don Manley (born 2 June 1945) is a long-serving setter of crosswords in the UK. He has supplied puzzles for the Radio Times, The Spectator, Today, The Independent, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, and the Financial Times and the Sunday Times among others. He is crossword editor of Church Times.
Telegraph (Bulgarian newspaper), a Bulgarian national daily newspaper published in Sofia; The Telegraph, is an Indian national daily newspaper founded in 1982; The Daily Telegraph (Napier, New Zealand), New Zealand, published 1871–1999; De Telegraaf, Dutch newspaper, founded 1893; Hongkong Telegraph, Hong Kong newspaper published 1881–1924
By early 1997, Parker’s puzzle became the "Universal Crossword" syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate to newspapers and clients worldwide. In 1999, together with Universal Press Syndicate’s Uclick division, Parker founded The Puzzle Society, and is the founder and senior editor of the Universal Uclick line of crossword puzzles and games.