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Dear Araucaria:

the puzzle of the Guardian's cryptic crossword expert

Video        Guardian Docs        8 June 2015

Much-missed and much-loved Guardian cryptic crossword setter

John Graham (also known as Araucaria) died in 2013,

appropriately revealing his terminal cancer to his fans

through a series of clues.

Possibly the only crossword setter who received fan mail,

this documentary shot shortly before his death features Araucaria

explaining his puzzle-making process

and remembering a happy life spent in the countryside

solving and setting crosswords for his adoring solvers

on whom he had a dramatic impact.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk94NU5N0P8

The Guardian        16 March 2007

crossword        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/
crosswords

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/21/
cryptic-crossword-100-years-old-centenary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/18/
john-graham-araucaria-crosswords-interview

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/crossword-blog/2011/sep/08/
crosswords-blog-ethics-commandments

crossword        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/14/
crosswords/crosswords-game-75-anniversary.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/07/
opinion/what-74-years-of-times-crosswords-say-about-the-words-we-use.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/
arts/bernice-gordon-who-toyed-with-words-dies-at-101.html

crossword puzzles        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/arts/
merl-reagle-whose-crossword-puzzles-delighted-clued-in-solvers-dies-at-65.html

crossword puzzle constructor > Merl Harry Reagle (1950-2015)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/
arts/merl-reagle-whose-crossword-puzzles-delighted-clued-in-solvers-dies-at-65.html

the art of setting crosswords        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/18/
john-graham-araucaria-crosswords-interview

cryptic crossword        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/
arts/03lewis.html

free interactive crossword        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crossword/free/interactive

crossword master

John Graham ("Araucaria"),

priest and crossword setter    UK    1921-2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk94NU5N0P8
- Guardian video, June 8, 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/2013/nov/26/
araucaria-john-graham

http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/2013/nov/26/
araucaria-puzzle-crossword-master-dies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/18/
john-graham-araucaria-crosswords-interview

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/2013/jan/11/
crossword-araucaria-reveals-dying-cancer

croswword setter

Gordius        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/crossword-blog/2012/nov/15/
crossword-blog-meet-setter-gordius

crossword setter

Shed, aka John Young        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/crossword-blog/2012/apr/05/
crossword-blog-meet-setter-shed

crossword setter

John Henderson, aka Enigmatist        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/crossword-blog/2011/oct/13/
crossword-blog-meet-the-setter-enigmatist

crossword setter

Margery Ruth Crisp, cryptic crossword setter    UK    1918-2007

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jan/29/
pressandpublishing.guardianobituaries

hidden word

The Guardian        p. 43        16 March 2007

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