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HOW TO COOK LITTLE FISH (3) A hundred New Zealand Listener Cryptic Crossword puzzles with answers and explanations Have you ever marvelled at that rare breed of person who can decipher the frustrating riddles which pose as clues in cryptic crosswords...

And so, our sixth annual Easter Hunt is wrapped up, snug as a bug in fact. Five clues, five lucky winners and a bonus clue sent out on Tuesday to those who riddled their way to all five eggs throughout the week (which was a group of about three...

Alan Connor turns the tables on the torturers. In the spotlight this time is Tom Johnson – also known as Doc, Gozo, Didymus, Twudge, Busman … Tom Johnson is a setter whose puzzling seemingly cannot be constrained. He sets for Fleet Street...

Kishore and I have got our third Hindi crossword grid filled and ready to be clued. Hindi crosswords 1 and 2 have been special prize puzzles on the blog. With crossword 3, we thought we'll do something different. When we started off setting in Hindi...

Tyler Hinman, 22, of Chicago competes in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Stamford, Conn. in 2007. (Douglas Healey/AP) Modern newspaper crosswords arrived on the scene 100 years ago—more or less, that is, since there’s always a degree of...