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    The fascinating history

    of Cryptic Crosswords

    A talk by Angela Bell


    The enduring
    popularity of the
    cryptic crossword
    puzzle
    Online crossword group on Zoom
    The origins of
    word puzzles
    in Pompeii
    THE SATOR SQUARE

    SATOR
    AREPO

    “The sower TENET


    OPERA
    ROTAS
    with his
    plough holds “”

    the wheels
    with care.”
    Exeter book
    of riddles
    Acrostic puzzles in Victorian times – the work of Lewis Carroll
    The “Windsor Enigma” –
    a puzzle by
    Queen Victoria
    Arthur
    Wynne,
    inventor of
    the first
    crossword

    Picture credit:
    www.sciencesource.com
    The early
    days of the
    Crossword
    puzzle
    Margaret Petherbridge,
    crossword editor,
    New York World.

    Picture credit: www.newyorker.com


    Crosswords
    appear in UK
    newspapers.
    What the newspapers said …

    •“A time waster” … “A menace”


    … The Times of London.

    •“A primitive sort of mental


    exercise”. New York Times.

    •“A fad, which will lower the tone


    of the publication”.
    Solving the clues
    Solving the
    clues
    SCRABBLE –
    the crossword
    inspired board
    game.
    Crosswords in
    popular fiction
    Inspector
    Morse and
    Sergeant
    Lewis

    Picture credit: www.radiotimes.com


    Crosswords
    as plot
    devices
    in films
    The Two Ronnies –
    Crossword sketch
    (1980)

    Picture credit: www.youtube.com


    Wordplay – a
    documentary film
    about crosswords
    Picture credit: IMDb.com
    Recruiting
    code breakers in
    World War 2
    The ‘Enigma’ Crossword
    Art on the
    London
    Underground
    Picture credit: www.serenakorda.com
    Crosswords and
    the
    D Day landings
    Ximenes – father of the Cryptic Crossword

    Picture credit: www.crossword.org.uk


    Araucaria –
    The Guardian
    crossword
    setter

    Picture credit: en.Wikipedia.org


    •

    Araucaria - The monkey puzzle tree


    A very long anagram
    clue by Araucaria!

    12 Across: Poetical scene with surprisingly


    chaste Lord Archer vegetating (3,3,8, 12)

    ANSWER: The Old Vicarage Grantchester.


    Gender bias in cryptic crossword clues
    Arachne aka
    Sarah Hayes
    The Knowledge
    Psychology
    and
    crosswords
    Making sense of
    Cryptic
    Crosswords
    •Picture credit: www.bbc.co.uk
    Picture credit: www.bbc.co.uk
    Psychological research
    into ‘super solvers’
    Crossword
    solving apps
    3 Dimensional
    crossword grids

    Picture credit:
    www.3dcalendarpuzzles.co.uk
    Picture credit:
    www.3dcalendarpuzzles.co.uk
    Talk created and presented by

    Angela Bell

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