The Guardian setter Picaroon is publishing his first book – a crime novel – using his non-crosswording name, James Brydon. We’ve already talked to him about his clue construction in a Meet the Setter; now let’s find out about The Moment Before Drowning.
Here, we usually look at puzzles from the broadsheets. There is of course another world of newspaper crosswords, and the tabloids’ cryptics tend to be looser in their wordplay. Marc Breman has set for papers including the Mirror and the Express
Doughnut – and other words – may go from noun to verb, then back to noun (but with some extra business tacked on the end): our pick of the best cryptic clues
Crossword roundup: where are the good Spanish crosswords?