My original work, an exercise in Gestalt (and Fibonacci) and Leibnitzian calculus with Dr S.
TIMES CROSSWORD EDITOR BILL ARCHIVE
My father was inventor of the renowned Times Jumbo crossword, crossword supplier extraordinary to BBC 2 for their pilot colour venture, Crossword on Two hosted by Ned Sherrin and starring Panel supremos Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell and other contemporary associated memorable wits and wordsmiths, founder of the annual Times Crossword Championships, and the Times crossword archive with his successor, the late John Grant, former Managing Editor of The Times, and encouraged me as his apprentice to carry on where they left off, promoting further my father’s own internationally acclaimed achievements, and that of subsequent crossword editors of The Times with my own late twentieth century invention, The Times Computer crosswords, inspired by the thinking of two great mathematicians and scientists, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and Stephen Hawking. In tribute to his loyal service to The Times, and doubtless in gratitude for his column in Not the Times during the Wapping Dispute (in which he advocated supporting the new proprietor if the journalists valued their jobs!), Mr Rupert Murdoch appointed Sir Edward Pickering, Chief Executive Times Newpapers Ltd, and the deputy Managing Editor of The Times, David Hopkinson, as his representatives at my father’s memorial service at St Andrews church in South Newton near Salisbury on a crisp, early New Year 1991 morn, as a mark of his appreciation and gratitude for EA’s life and loyal long service to The Times. You can also subscribe by email and have articles delivered to your inbox, or follow me on twitter to get notified of new links.Welcome to my website My father was Edmund Akenhead, Crossword Editor of The Times from 1965 to 1983 and contributor from 1965 until he died in 1990 just before Christmas. If you wish to keep track of further articles on Crossword Unclued, you can subscribe to it in a reader via RSS Feed.
: As you can guess, the title of the book Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose (8) is a cryptic clue. The New York Times crossword editor, Will Shortz, calls it his favourite puzzle of all time. This crossword was designed by Jeremiah Farrell. Of course, the same device couldn't have been used in a standard cryptic crossword as word length breakup of solutions - (7, 7) vs (3, 4, 7) - would have given the game away. The exclamation mark in clue 39A works like it does with cryptic clues – signalling that something other than the obvious is going on. Very few solvers at the time realized that a solution different from theirs was possible. Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!): BOB DOLE ELECTED So, if you answered the crossing clues like this: 39D Black Halloween animal BAT The clues for the crossing words are deliberately ambiguous and allow a completely different set of valid answers. The beauty of this puzzle is that there are two possible solutions. What they did not realize was that another group of solvers were sniggering over NYT's massive faux pas, for they had answered the same clue as BOB DOLE ELECTED. There were loud protests from solvers – was NYT being so presumptuous as to predict the result? Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!): CLINTON ELECTEDīUT at the time the crossword was published, the election result had not been declared. The checking letters for 39A worked out as: 39D Black Halloween animal CAT The lead story in the next day's newspaper would naturally be about the result of the election. This puzzle was published on 5th November 1996, the day of the Presidential Election in US in which Bill Clinton and Bob Dole were the prime candidates. The answer to the central clue corresponds with two 7-letter spaces. The special clue is the one cutting across the centre of the grid - 39A(+43A): This feature was put to ingenious use in the 1996 Election Day Crossword. You'll notice another dissimilarity with regular cryptic crosswords: the NYT clues do not mention solution lengths. The NYT puzzle is not a cryptic one it has straight clues with the occasional pun or cryptic definition. Here is a screenshot of the grid and clues: I looked it up on the net and (bless Google) found the puzzle online. One such anecdote is about a remarkable crossword puzzle published in the New York Times in 1996. I recently read a book called Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose (8), an autobiography interweaved with interesting stories about crosswords.
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