Fourth row: M E H T. Bottom row: D N I *] This time the social network is TikTok, the challenge (unless it’s a deepfake) is from The 1% Club Australia and once again it is not actually a crossword.
Only a moment, since the “crossword” usually turns out to be something else, trending and self-replicating on the latest social network; the headlines are tentacles flaying at anyone who didn’t see it first time round.
PS in our cluing conference for PERCOLATE, the audacity award is Chri5Miller’s for including erbium as an element of “Strain to find metals in crockery”; the runners-up are Epididymis’s optimistic “New design for ace petrol filter” and Harlobarlo’s wince-dodging “Strain is avoided when exercising core with pilates”; the winner is the winningly misleading “Prepare grounds for negotiated parole etc”.
After a puzzle from The 1% Club Australia went viral, our crossword editor has some questions of his own.
When a fact comes from a TV gameshow, though: I can testify from other jobs I’ve had that no one is more worried about looking like they’ve got it wrong than the makers of quizshows between the 2007 scandals and today.
