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Crossword blog

The crossword blog looks at the smartest and wittiest clues from all the cryptics. Come and share the joy and frustration of crossword culture

July 2024

  • Yvette Cooper, Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner in a supermarket in April

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: which cabinet members will crosswords favour?

  • A stack of jellies.

    Cryptic crosswords for beginners
    Cryptic crosswords for beginners: one thing on top of another

June 2024

  • Elon Musk Rebranding Twitter Logo From Bird To "X"<br>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 24: A worker removes letters from the Twitter sign that is posted on the exterior of Twitter headquarters on July 24, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Workers began removing the letters from the sign outside Twitter headquarters less than 24 hours after CEO Elon Musk officially rebranded Twitter as "X" and has changed its iconic bird logo, the biggest change he has made since taking over the social media platform. San Francisco police halted the sign removal shortly after it began. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: goodbye Rishi and the meaning of ‘X’

    Opinion polls, PMs of various kinds and the final few Rishis feature in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues
  • Inside No 9 - Boo to a Goose

    Crossword blog
    ‘Better to escape than delete’ – Guardian crossword setter Sphinx returns

    As Steve Pemberton reappears on the puzzle page with a special challenge, he reveals his wordplay influences – from Taskmaster to the Two Ronnies, and Inside No 9
  • Trading game Pit

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: what word can mean ‘game’, ‘set’ and ‘match’?

    Some masterful cluing and topical snapshots in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues

May 2024

  • Equations on blackboard

    Crossword blog
    Crosswords: what to do when a puzzle looks harder than it actually is

  • Alphabet spaghetti

    Cryptic crosswords for beginners
    Cryptic crosswords: all on a plate – how often is the solution word in the clue itself?

  • Wayland’s Smithy ancient Neolithic long barrow

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: is Waylon Smithers named after Wayland’s Smithy?

  • Abba at Waterloo, 10 April 1974

    Cryptic crosswords for beginners
    Cryptic crosswords for beginners: trains and railways

April 2024

  • Julius Caesar landing in Britain

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: can the Guardian’s quick cryptic really ‘save the election’?

    A political response to our new puzzle series in our pick of broadsheets’ cryptic clues, the non-military senses of ‘salvo’, and how would you clue ‘hail’?
  • A dance of fools

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: to fool or not to fool?

    How committed are puzzles to providing extra tricks on April Fools’ Day?

    • Crossword blog
      Crossword column: an experiment reaches the end of the road

    • Crossword blog
      A new Guardian crossword: the Quick Cryptic

    • Cryptic crosswords for beginners
      Cryptic crosswords for beginners: hospitals

March 2024

  • Oat-dressed kippers with beetroot mash and green beans

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: cricket and the changing reputation of salmon

  • Two women wearing colourful headscarves pose in front of a Taylor Swift Eras Tour billboard advertising concerts in Singapore.

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: the words of 2023

  • Ian Smith of the RNLI lifeboat station in Borth, Wales at Westminster Abbey, 4 March 2024

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: where Abba meet the RNLI

  • Freddy Kosten came to England from Vienna on the Kindertransport in 1939. Seen in 1941 in the Chelsea garden of his Guarantors Labour MP Benn Levy and actress Constance Cummings, with Odin, possibly the first German boxer in the UK.

    Crossword blog
    Crossword book club: Clutterbuck by Benn Levy

February 2024

  • The Peterloo Tapestry in Albert Square, Manchester, 2017

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: from Waterloo to Peterloo

  • Stephenson’s Rocket, as featured in today’s prize puzzle

    Crossword blog
    A special Guardian cryptic crossword, but who is Hugo?

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