10) Crosswords: Who sets the crossword in your daily newspaper?
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This article is from the Crosswords FAQ, by James A. Lundon (jlundon@xstacy.enet.dec.com) with numerous contributions by others.
10) Crosswords: Who sets the crossword in your daily newspaper?
The Times (of London) uses a number of crossword setters but they are
not named. There is a crossword editor at the Times, but that person is
not well known (though you get through if you write to him/her). The
Guardian and Independent use pseudonymous setters. The Listener uses a
huge variety of setters. Probably the people behind them are less
interesting than the source (e.g. Times, Guardian etc). There are one
or two exceptions, like the crossword in the Observer which I think is
always the same person. The setter for the Irish Times cryptic
crossword is probably an exception in that he recently (March 1993)
celebrated his golden anniversary of setting crosswords for the paper.
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