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  • In 1974, I took a job near the Edgware Rd in London; we used to have lunch occasionally at a pub round the corner which happened to have a splendid monkey puzzle tree out front; I was not yet a crossworder, but one of my colleagues was and she spent her hour doing the Guardian.

    Cryptic crossword No 25,247 2011

  • It's a testament to the intense focus of a competitive crossworder that almost no one looked up.

    Yale Daily News: Latest Issue 2009

  • (variant, Ximenes) de Cisneros, Spanish prelate and Queen Isabella's confessor and the Inquisitor General of Castile and Leon, when he succeeded "Torquemada," the original cryptic crossworder of The Observer.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3 1980

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