Grauniad crossword

[rbrown]

Great article. Araucaria was probably the best ever but it was pretty rare that I managed to finish one. I liked the alphabetic ones where you had work out where the answers fitted.

 

[steveledzep]

Over 20 years since seeing a Guardian crossword. I was long term in a hotel when moving jobs, a group would congregate at the bar every evening with their crosswords.

Like The Times crossword, particularly the Jumbo on Saturday, also the fiendish Sudoku.

 

[rbrown]

My favourite Araucaria clue: (6,3,1,4)

 

[billo]

There have been some letters to The Guardian lately about the fact that their cryptic crossword is getting too hard.
I do like the fact that if you type "anagram" into Google you get the question " Did you mean "nag a ram?"

another cryptic clue 'sound stage check' (1,2,1,2,1,2)

 

[lsinclair]

Great article. Araucaria was probably the best ever but it was pretty rare that I managed to finish one. I liked the alphabetic ones where you had work out where the answers fitted.

...he worked hard and produced dozens of puzzles a month, including six cryptics for the Guardian, some more for other papers (though never the Times; he refused to work for Murdoch)

I hadn't read about his feelings towards Murdoch before... he was an even greater man than I had thought!

 

[clifftaylor]

Araucaria also did private work - we bought a crossword for my (late) sister, and you could ask him to include specific areas of interest, although the puzzle was a bitch even so! She really liked it.

 

[Cesare]

I'm slightly surprised the Araucaria article on wikipedia doesn't mention his interest in the humble dormouse.