Thanks for your suggested replacement clues for the Campaign for Real Ale’s Derby Drinker magazine. If you missed this rare appearance of crosswords in the headlines, there was a brief storm over 7d and 18d in the magazine’s current puzzle: My own 7d, for what it’s worth, is “Doctor, go! Nurse, we need someone to operate (7)”. Trickier is 18d – I would be tempted by something along the lines of: “Mr Daggins is an idiot (5)” (definition attested in the OED), but perhaps that’s just irritating. I prefer yours for both, anyway. Camra’s national executive is conducting an investigation. I hope that this is done with a knowledge of how crosswords in general work. What, reader, do you make of it all? Something worse? The Guardian stable: Other cryptic setters: Commentators, editors, publishers etc:
Thanks for your suggested replacement clues for the Campaign for Real Ale’s Derby Drinker magazine. If you missed this rare appearance of crosswords in the headlines, there was a brief storm over 7d and 18d in the magazine’s current puzzle:
My own 7d, for what it’s worth, is “Doctor, go! Nurse, we need someone to operate (7)”. Trickier is 18d – I would be tempted by something along the lines of: “Mr Daggins is an idiot (5)” (definition attested in the OED), but perhaps that’s just irritating. I prefer yours for both, anyway.
Camra’s national executive is conducting an investigation….
