When does a cryptic crossword become a work of Genius?
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A recent Guardian puzzle achieved something that even the paper’s crossword editor thought impossible. And the clue to solving it lay in a Two Ronnies sketch.
The Genius is the Guardian’s toughest crossword. Setters get inventive: in February’s Genius, by Qaos, the grid turned out to be a representation of the end of The Shawshank Redemption.
Still, the puzzles honour the most fundamental understanding between cryptic setter and solver: each clue will be made up of, in either order, a definition of the answer and some wordplay (an anagram, say, or a soundalike) of that same word.
Each answer is clued by wordplay only. Two symmetrically opposite answers give the theme of a sketch, and the answer to the question: who performed it?.
RONNIE: Your name please? RONNIE: Good evening. RONNIE: This time you have chosen to Answer the Question Before Last each time. Is that correct? RONNIE: Charlie Smithers.
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