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Cryptic crosswords for beginners: mind the gap – when clues get completely heartless
Continuing our series for those tempted or daunted by cryptics, we explore directions that ask us to remove middle letters
Alan Connor
23, Jan, 2023 @10:56 AM
Crossword roundup: PG Wodehouse and lots of ducks
We consider crosswords of the past and the present in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptics
Alan Connor
16, Jan, 2023 @11:47 AM
Help (that’s a clue)! Can you name the Guardian’s missing mystery crossword setters?
A prisoner and a heart surgeon – plus a clutch of teachers and comics … We’ve found names, photos and life stories for nearly all the Guardian’s compilers since the beginning of cryptic time. Please help us fill the gaps!
Alan Connor
10, Jan, 2023 @11:49 AM
My thrifty mother even recycled the presents she liked | Brief letters
Brief letters: Recycling gifts | Gilbert and Sullivan’s Lord Mountararat | Northern culture | Welsh walks
06, Jan, 2023 @3:46 PM
A day at the beach: ‘A haul like this is insanely rare. It does feel like fate, I suppose’
Two weeks after moving to Australia, Jacob Robbens and his partner Emma made the detectoring find of a lifetime on a busy Sydney beach
01, Jan, 2023 @2:00 PM
Evergreen: saving Sydney’s struggling bowlos
Faced with financial difficulties and interest from developers, bowling clubs are a threatened species. But revivals are possible, as the Leichhardt Bowlo has shown
Royce Kurmelovs
30, Dec, 2022 @2:00 PM
Experience: I’m a world champion stone skimmer
That perfect skim, where the stone glides, felt fantastic – and still does
Christina Bowen Bravery
30, Dec, 2022 @10:00 AM
‘I expected an LP, but it was a watercolour map of Melbourne’ – the Christmas present I’ll never forget
My tough scouser grandma was a weaver of yarns, a teller of blitz stories, a bowler for Lancashire – and painter of meticulous maps as unforgettable as her
Daniel Lavelle
29, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM
‘Cheap compared with most holidays’: booking a vacation just to read
Making a reading list the focus of an entire holiday is a convenient way to spend your time off. And as people who’ve done it found – it can be life-changing
Lee Tran Lam
28, Dec, 2022 @2:00 PM
‘I will be resisting the urge to watch so much TV’: the thing I’ll do differently in 2023
Sitting in front of the screen became a safety blanket during the pandemic. But I can’t keep existing within the confines of my flat
Ammar Kalia
27, Dec, 2022 @4:00 PM
In homage to Harry Styles, I tried to knit a grungy cloak of homemade smugness | Rebecca Nicholson
I wanted to learn a skill that would come in handy after society collapsed – perhaps I should have taken up unarmed combat, says Guardian columnist Rebecca Nicholson
Rebecca Nicholson
24, Dec, 2022 @11:00 AM
Everything’s more fun with my cherry-red keytar – the Christmas present I’ll never forget
After a difficult few years, I started playing with a band and now feel as if I am living life in full colour again
Helen Pidd
23, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM
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