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My wife had a Games Magazine subscription for 15 years or so. Only when she loaded crosswords on her iPhone did it go away.

We do them at bedtime sometimes. She saves the hard ones she's stuck on and inflicts them on me as we're going to bed. It's fun.

Cryptics suck. They're the definition of British irrelevance.

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briandmyers · 3251 days ago · link ·

Cryptics suck. They're the definition of British irrelevance.

I am the king of cryptics - I can regularly finish them now. Yes it does make me a freak. So much British, though.