Crosswords

Fredrik Ekman wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 7:44 am, Tristan McLeay said:
>
>> Without intending to belittle Paul's achievements, I think most
>> crosswords these days are made by computer.
>
> Depends. The ones you find in major newspapers, I would bet, are still
> produced manually. Even (or perhaps especially) the "fancy symmetrical
> ones".
I'm quite sure they are, especially, as you say, the "fancy symmetrical
ones."

> That kind of crossword must have existed before there even were any
> computers,
It most certainly did!

> and making a good one is considered an art by the connoisseurs.
Yep. I've done this several times for my one amusement. Computers are
very useful for doing complicated & repetitive stuff that one finds
boring, but using a dumb machine for doing something one likes doing! No
way.

Leave it for unimaginative newspapers to use computers to set make their
unimaginative crosswords.

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