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 ...

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 ...

Mary O’Brien estimates she has compiled about 12,000 of the crosswords, and her 15th book will appear in August to mark the anniversary ...

The Telegraph Crossword is one of the most famous in the world, and often the main reason why somebody takes the newspaper; however, the precise make-up of the compiling team is shrouded in mystery, ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Your setter/compiler handle/pseudonym/alter ego Monk. Why? “M on K”, my initials. And, increasingly, the ...