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Sarah Hayes, usually known as Arachne, is a British cryptic crossword setter. She sets puzzles for The Guardian, The Independent (as Anarche), the Financial Times (as Rosa Klebb), the New Statesman (as Aranya), and The Times, and advanced cryptics for The Listener crossword (The Times), Enigmatic Variations (The Daily Telegraph) and the Inquisitor (The Independent).
Roger Squires. Squires in 2005. Roger Squires (22 February 1932 – 1 June 2023) was a British crossword compiler/setter, who lived in Ironbridge, Shropshire. He was best known for being the world's most prolific compiler. He compiled under the pseudonym Rufus in The Guardian, Dante in The Financial Times and was the Monday setter for the Daily ...
The two of them had completed the Guardian crossword daily while filming together for the television comedy Benidorm. [19] Allowing a one-off contribution from a non-regular setter was deeply unusual for The Guardian, whose crosswords are normally produced by one of about 25 regular setters. [21]
Sally Hoelscher, USA TODAY. September 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM. There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve today's puzzle before reading further! Open Wide. Constructor: Jess Shulman. Editor ...
Eric Graham (father) Phyllis Norton Buckle (mother) John Galbraith Graham MBE (16 February 1921 – 26 November 2013 [1]) was a British crossword compiler, best known as Araucaria of The Guardian. He was also, like his father Eric Graham, [2] a Church of England priest.
Jonathan Crowther at the Azed 1750 Luncheon. Jonathan Crowther is a British crossword compiler who has for over 50 years composed the Azed cryptic crossword in The Observer Sunday newspaper. He was voted "best British crossword setter" in a poll of crossword setters conducted by The Sunday Times in 1991 and in the same year was chosen as "the ...
He calls the game very aggressive, and that's the way I like to pitch." Detroit Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal (29) throws a pitch against the Milwaukee Brewers in the first inning at Comerica Park ...
Knuckleball. Hall of Fame knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm shows how he placed his fingers before a pitch. A knuckleball or knuckler is a baseball pitch thrown to minimize the spin of the ball in flight, causing an erratic, unpredictable motion. The air flow over a seam of the ball causes the ball to change from laminar to turbulent flow.