John Pidgeon, who has died aged 69, was an energetic polymath – a film and music journalist, radio producer, script and sketch writer, lyricist, one-time road manager for the 1970s rock band the Faces ...

Premier crossword compiler also creates Sudoku, word searches, and other puzzles. Despite its name, Crossword Compiler isn’t limited to compilingcrossword puzzles. This heavy-duty puzzle generator can ...

Why? Cunning anti-hero of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels. Real name Brendan Donaghy. Where are you? Bogotá, Colombia. Years compiling Four years for the Independent (as Italicus), about a year and ...

Legendary crossword compiler Araucaria decided to share special message in one of his own puzzles to his fans - that he has cancer. The 91-year-old, whose real name is the Rev John Graham, decided ...

Bert Danher, the crossword compiler at The Daily Telegraph newspaper who produced a special puzzle for the Queen Mother Elizabeth on her 100th birthday, has died at age 75. Danher, who liked to ...

Robots will put the last remaining crossword compilers out of work within 15 years, an expert warns. There are less than 100 professional crossword makers left in the UK but their days are numbered ...

Most compilers produce puzzles in their spare time, but to do it professionally you’ll need mathematical precision Words, seen through Sue Purcell’s eyes, are acrobatic things. For an instant a label ...

A world renowned crossword compiler has used one of his own puzzles to reveal he is dying of cancer. Crossword master Rev John Graham, who goes by the pseudonym Araucaria, announced his terminal ...

Many letters have been sent to this publication following the announcement of the death of Donald Harrison, the Tuesday crossword compiler for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Harrison began ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Your setter/compiler handle/pseudonym/alter ego Zamorca. Why? I am mad about guinea pigs and thought it would ...

Legendary crossword compiler Araucaria decided to share special message in one of his own puzzles to his fans - that he has cancer. The 91-year-old, whose real name is the Rev John Graham, decided ...