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Clare A | 00:02 Mon 18th Jul 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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I opened the Sunday Telegraph today and the howl of outrage made my mates in the pub think I'd come across some new atrocity. Well, I had.

What has possessed the people at the ST to revise the crosswords so that one grid serves both the Cryptic and the General Knowledge puzzles? The clues are different, the answers are different, but I can't be the only one who'd like to solve each crossword separately. If they think I'm trotting back to the shop to buy a second paper so that I can do this, then they've another thought coming. I feel a letter coming on...

Angry of Douglas. 

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Can you not invest in a pencil and eraser?
that is no good if you want to send them in!

Maybe it's to gie more folk the chance to win?

How about a pencil, eraser and greaseproof paper to copy the crossword? THEN you can send in answers to both crosswords.....
Copies are not acceptable

OK....write one set of answers in black and the other in red......then send it in wi a letter asking for it to be counted for both...... 

I discovered the same thing and had the same reaction when I first looked in that section of the paper in response to twiglet3's posting earlier this evening.  I must say too that as a cryptic crossword, it is much larger than the previous one - I hope it isn't any harder - I always found the Sunday cryptic much harder than the weekday ones.

It is no use writing to complain, the ST will blame it on some fictitious EU directive.
Quite agree gen2 .I have always found the Sunday cryptic much harder than the ones during the week.Don't like this new idea much though .I prefer two seperate puzzles.I did the general knowledge one today and it was easy.But..if you send them in as I do then you are stuck with which one to choose.I might rattle of an email to the the Telegraph.

Another alternative is to register through the internet with the Telegraph Crossword Society, as I must do, as a non-Briton.  It costs 30 pounds a year.

You can then view each puzzle separately on screen and print each separately.

I would guess but am not certain that they would accept an entry on their own format.

I don't submit entries because I obviously don't meet the residency requirement.

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