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This year, my list includes "101 Cryptic Crosswords" by Fraser Simpson from his days at The New Yorker: a combination of my favourite magazine, my favourite passtime, and my favourite setter.
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But if you’re shopping for an adult cryptic crossword aficionado, you should consider Alan Connor’s book “Two Girls, One On Each Knee (7)”, which I recently read. It’s been out for a little over a year now, so I’m late to the game, but I enjoyed it.
The book is a mix of “how-to” instructions for solving cryptics, and musings on the puzzles themselves. Many of the themes Connor explores ( the setter as mystery writer , for example) are ideas that I’ve written about myself on this blog.
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The title, as experienced solvers will know, is one of Roger Squires (i.e., Rufus)’s clues. It was his two millionth, and it appeared in a puzzle in The Telegraph in 2007.
What’s the best cryptic-related gift you’ve ever received?
And if you love cryptics, what’s on your wish list?
Sarah