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Timeshift

Season 8 · Episode 5

How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword

7.01h 0mNovember 10, 2008

Don Manley reveals the tricks that compilers use to bamboozle and entertain cryptic crossword solvers, while fans including Prunella Scales explain why they enjoy them.

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Episodes

Episode 1How to Be a Good President
Episode 2Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film
Episode 3Last Days of Steam
Episode 4How to Write a Mills and Boon
Episode 5How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword
Episode 6The Comic Songbook
Episode 7Fashion versus the BBC
Episode 8The North-South Divide