Those Cryptic British Crosswords

Authors

William Sunners

Abstract

When Will Shortz was gathering material for his recently-published book, World Class Championship Crosswords (Simon & Schuster, 1982), he visited me to consult some of my historical crossword competition material. We soon got into a spirited discussion about inadvertent ambiguity in British-style crossword puzzles: I maintained that the plethora of "outs" (black squares) in British diagrams allowed crossword fans sometimes to write different correct answers into the same word-path, whereas Will Shortz insisted that the typical British clue would not allow such a possibility.

Recommended Citation

Sunners, William (1983) "Those Cryptic British Crosswords," Word Ways: Vol. 16 : Iss. 2 , Article 14.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol16/iss2/14