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 ...

Seventy years ago, the British Intelligence agency MI5 flew into a panic when agents noticed that key code names from the top secret D-Day operation were appearing in The Daily Telegraph's crossword ...

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' ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nuala Considine, who has died aged 90, had perhaps the longest career of any crossword compiler; her first puzzle was published at the age of 18, and she was still working prolifically until shortly ...

A world renowned crossword compiler has used one of his own puzzles to reveal he is dying of cancer. Crossword master Rev John Graham, who goes by the pseudonym Araucaria, announced his terminal ...

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 ...