deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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- Armonmy Way
Crossword solvers' most elegant and worthy foe has died. I know crosswords aren't everybody's 3,2,3 but I've spent many hours struggling with him.
Puzzle compiler down.
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ScotiaLass
Guru
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- Middle Earth
That's sad
GM
Legendary Member
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- North of the river
Yes, it does get one down!
Luddite Joe
Über Member
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- Swindon
A sad day. Nobody compares to the Monkey Puzzler.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
What a fine obit.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
http://www.theguardian.com/crosswor...zles?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
An appreciation from the current crossword ed. Most deaths of famous people pass me by, but not this one. Bank holiday weekends will never be the same again.
An appreciation from the current crossword ed. Most deaths of famous people pass me by, but not this one. Bank holiday weekends will never be the same again.
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deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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- Armonmy Way
discominer
Senior Member
Loved his puzzles for years and years. RIP.
RedRider
Pulling through
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- Location Embrocation
Very good. The co-writer John Perkin's own obit appeared in the paper 11 years ago I see. He was the Guardian's former crossword editor.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'm sorry to hear about the old chap, but it sounds like he had a good life!
I wish I could get into those crosswords. I like the mental gymnastics involved, but I don't think I have a broad enough education to pick up on obscure references to Mongolian rivers, Afghan beetles, or poems in Latin by some Roman whose work had somehow never managed to cross my path.
Does anybody write really good cryptic crosswords which can be solved without requiring that kind of knowledge?
Perhaps clues a little harder than "Hundred taken away from revised account, but he still has a large bill" (6) which I didn't have a problem with, but ones not requiring requiring an encyclopaedic memory!
I wish I could get into those crosswords. I like the mental gymnastics involved, but I don't think I have a broad enough education to pick up on obscure references to Mongolian rivers, Afghan beetles, or poems in Latin by some Roman whose work had somehow never managed to cross my path.
Does anybody write really good cryptic crosswords which can be solved without requiring that kind of knowledge?
Perhaps clues a little harder than "Hundred taken away from revised account, but he still has a large bill" (6) which I didn't have a problem with, but ones not requiring requiring an encyclopaedic memory!
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Agreed - and the alphabetical jigsaw that someone else set over the summer was also a fine one. My only regret is that the clues didn't rhyme, but even Araucaria stopped using rhyming couplets for his alphabeticals a few years ago.
