Legendary crossword compiler Araucaria decided to share special message in one of his own puzzles to his fans - that he has cancer. The 91-year-old, whose real name is the Rev John Graham, decided ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Roger Squires chanced upon crosswords by magic. During his first career flying for the aviation arm of the ...

A crossword compiler has played a cryptic joke on Boris Johnson - smuggling a blunt Brexit message into his puzzle. Fans of the Guardian's daily crossword were surprised to see 'Bollocks to Brexit' ...

Bert Danher, the crossword compiler at The Daily Telegraph newspaper who produced a special puzzle for the Queen Mother Elizabeth on her 100th birthday, has died at age 75. Danher, who liked to ...

The Telegraph Crossword is one of the most famous in the world, and often the main reason why somebody takes the newspaper; however, the precise make-up of the compiling team is shrouded in mystery, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. On June 29, our crossword solvers got a bit of a shock. Gone was the NS that had appeared for almost forty years; in its stead were the ...

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Puzzle play… A solver fills in a crossword in The New York Times (Picture: AP) If you have ever spent most of your day in a state of frustration because you cannot find the answer to 12 down, the ...

Legendary crossword compiler Araucaria decided to share special message in one of his own puzzles to his fans - that he has cancer. The 91-year-old, whose real name is the Rev John Graham, decided ...