John Galbraith Graham
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John Galbraith Graham MBE was a British crossword compiler, best known as Araucaria of The Guardian. He was also, like his father Eric Graham, a Church of England priest.
John Graham in 2013
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A crossword is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares with numbers on the corners, into which solvers enter words or phrases crossing each other horizontally and vertically accord
John Galbraith Graham
…John Galbraith Graham MBE (16 February 1921 – 26 November 2013) was a British crossword compiler, best known as Araucaria of The Guardian. He was also, like his father Eric Graham, a Church of England priest. Graham was born in Oxford…
A 1925 Punch cartoon about "The Cross-Word Mania". A person phones a doctor in the middle of the night, asking for "the name of a bodily disorder of seven letters, of which the second letter must be 'N'".
Finalists competing in a crossword competition in New York City in 2019
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Barred grid where bold bars are used instead of shaded blocks to separate the words