Araucaria has been delighting and confounding cryptic crossword fans for almost 50 years. Now solvers can pit their wits against the master with 60 never-before-published jigsaw crosswords. Jigsaw crosswords are Araucaria's own invention and are challenging cryptic crosswords where you first have to solve the clues and then fit the solutions into the grid (without the help of numbers).
John Graham's first published crossword puzzle appeared in the
Manchester Guardian in 1958. He has set for
The Guardian ever since, taking the pseudonym Araucaria, meaning 'monkey puzzle tree'. He also compiles crosswords for the
Financial Times as Cinephile, and founded the crossword magazine
1 Across in 1984. He was awarded the MBE in 2005.
Title: Chambers Book of Araucaria Crosswords: volume 1
Author: Graham, John
ISBN: 9780550101105
Binding:
Publisher: John Murray Press
Publication Date: 2003-07-21
Number of Pages: 192
Weight: 0.2223 kg
No compiler has given more pleasure to more people - Hugh Stephenson, The Guardian
The most infuriatingly ingenious setter working today - Ian Rankin