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As the Observer affixes an ‘under new management’ sign to its crosswords, your questions are answeredIt’s known in every newsroom that a paper making almost any mistake is preferable to dealing with the fallout from moving the crossword. You’d rather print a weather forecast of locust rain. A recipe for poisoned cakes. Just so long as the puzzle is in its usual place.Puzzles do, however, move – not often. Sometimes they even move publication, like when the Listener’s tricky one moved to the Times. What’s about to happen in these parts is not that dramatic but it does mean – we must brace ourselves – that three puzzles will not be appearing in their usual places. Continue reading...
As the Observer affixes an ‘under new management’ sign to its crosswords, your questions are answered
It’s known in every newsroom that a paper making almost any mistake is preferable to dealing with the fallout from moving the crossword. You’d rather print a weather forecast of locust rain. A recipe for poisoned cakes. Just so long as the puzzle is in its usual place.
Puzzles do, however, move – not often. Sometimes they even move publication, like when the Listener’s tricky one moved to the Times. What’s about to happen in these parts is not that dramatic but it does mean – we must brace ourselves – that three puzzles will not be appearing in their usual places. Continue reading...
