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  2. Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

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    A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.

  3. D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Roger Squires - Wikipedia

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    Squires in 2005. Roger Squires (22 February 1932 – 1 June 2023) was a British crossword compiler/setter, who lived in Ironbridge, Shropshire. He was best known for being the world's most prolific compiler. He compiled under the pseudonym Rufus in The Guardian, Dante in The Financial Times and was the Monday setter for the Daily Telegraph .

  5. Leonard Dawe - Wikipedia

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    Crossword compiler. In 1925, he commenced compiling crosswords for The Daily Telegraph newspaper and was one of the first compilers to use "cryptic" clues. The first Daily Telegraph crossword, compiled by Dawes, appeared on 30 July 1925 – he continued to compile crosswords until his death in 1963.

  6. John Halpern - Wikipedia

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    All the time John was looking to get more crosswords published, across more UK national newspapers, the plan being to write cryptic crosswords full-time. Full-time cryptic crossword setter. In the years since 1995, Halpern has compiled crosswords for the Financial Times as Mudd, the Times (anonymous), the Telegraph as Dada and the Independent ...

  7. The New York Times Crossword - Wikipedia

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    Android. Release. February 15, 1942; 82 years ago. ( 1942-02-15) Genre (s) Word game. Mode (s) Single-player. The New York Times Crossword (marketed as The Crossword) is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times as part of The New York Times Games, online on the newspaper's website, syndicated to more than 300 ...

  8. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...

  9. Don Manley - Wikipedia

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    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.

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