An open letter to the Guardian "Quick Crossword" compilers
Dear Sirs,
Completing your puzzle in the G2 section of your organ is one of the small pleasures of my day. I find it pitched at my level of intelligence (somewhere between "Pooh" and "Paddington" on the Fictional Bear Scale of IQ), and generally witty and well-designed.
I have noted from time to time you have "themed" periods where a few major clues each day are based around the same topic. Often these topics seem to be beyond my sphere of knowledge (for example "poets" featured heavily for a while), which means I am often unable to complete your crossword for several days in a row. But I have in the past been reassured in the knowledge that these "themed" seasons never last more than a couple of weeks.
Imagine then my disgust and horror on discovering in today's Guardian you have begun a third week of crosswords themed around horticulture, specifically the names of flowers!
I am a predominately heterosexual male, and therefore I obviously know bugger all about flowers and their names. I wouldn't, for example, be able to name flower of primrose family (7) if my very life depended on it!
Please please please end this madness and get back to running normal crosswords for normal red-blooded men!
Yours,
Becky EnVerite (Mr.)
P.S. How about a week themed around make-up? I have some great clues if you want them.
Sample: Door-to-door cosmetic company - Blake's killer (4).
Good eh? There's more where that came from!
Completing your puzzle in the G2 section of your organ is one of the small pleasures of my day. I find it pitched at my level of intelligence (somewhere between "Pooh" and "Paddington" on the Fictional Bear Scale of IQ), and generally witty and well-designed.
I have noted from time to time you have "themed" periods where a few major clues each day are based around the same topic. Often these topics seem to be beyond my sphere of knowledge (for example "poets" featured heavily for a while), which means I am often unable to complete your crossword for several days in a row. But I have in the past been reassured in the knowledge that these "themed" seasons never last more than a couple of weeks.
Imagine then my disgust and horror on discovering in today's Guardian you have begun a third week of crosswords themed around horticulture, specifically the names of flowers!
I am a predominately heterosexual male, and therefore I obviously know bugger all about flowers and their names. I wouldn't, for example, be able to name flower of primrose family (7) if my very life depended on it!
Please please please end this madness and get back to running normal crosswords for normal red-blooded men!
Yours,
Becky EnVerite (Mr.)
P.S. How about a week themed around make-up? I have some great clues if you want them.
Sample: Door-to-door cosmetic company - Blake's killer (4).
Good eh? There's more where that came from!
Go on give us another one.
And you wait until those Guardian Flickr groups start on you....
Not that I think less of you as a man, or anything. ;-)
Cryptic:
Movie makeup artist adds star quality to mother (3,6)
Spaniard speaking bad English wishes to reside with a former Austrian Formula 1 champion. 5, 6
Ans: Max Factor
H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O (5)
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