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Apart from crosswords, Squires was qualified for membership of Mensa [8] and The Magic Circle. From 1964 to 1977 he made over 250 appearances on TV as a comedy magician. Squires was featured talking about crosswords in the TV programme How To Solve Cryptic Crosswords (BBC4) in 2009, and in the BBC One Show (BBC1) in 2011. [9]
Sarah Hayes, usually known as Arachne, is a British cryptic crossword setter. She sets puzzles for The Guardian, The Independent (as Anarche), the Financial Times (as Rosa Klebb), the New Statesman (as Aranya), and The Times, and advanced cryptics for The Listener crossword (The Times), Enigmatic Variations (The Daily Telegraph) and the Inquisitor (The Independent).
Halpern's interest in The Guardian cryptic crossword puzzle began when he was a student in Canterbury, and he wondered if the compilers could possibly be human beings. [2] After completing a puzzle for the first time, he set about creating two of his own to send to his hero John Galbraith Graham , known as "Araucaria", and accomplished this two ...
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
Allowing a one-off contribution from a non-regular setter was deeply unusual for The Guardian, whose crosswords are normally produced by one of about 25 regular setters. [21] Pemberton, again writing as Sphinx, went on to publish further cryptic crosswords in The Guardian. One appeared in 2018, during the airing of the fourth series of Inside No. 9
Margaret Irvine (20 January 1948 – 24 June 2023) [1] [2] was a British crossword compiler. She created hundreds of cryptic crosswords between 2006 and 2023 mostly for The Guardian under the pseudonym Nutmeg. She also set puzzles in The Times, The Church Times and, as Mace, in the New Statesman.
The Monkey Puzzler – 80th birthday tribute from The Guardian; Obituary – from The Guardian; Hoggart, Simon (26 November 2013). "Araucaria's last puzzle: crossword master dies". The Guardian. Profile – Araucaria's crosswords from 1999 to 2013 in The Guardian; John Graham on Desert Island Discs – BBC Radio 4 podcast
Leonard Dawe, Telegraph crossword compiler, created these puzzles at his home in Leatherhead. Dawe was headmaster of Strand School , which had been evacuated to Effingham , Surrey . Adjacent to the school was a large camp of US and Canadian troops preparing for D-Day, and as security around the camp was lax, there was unrestricted contact ...