#Peter gordon crossword editor serial

Photograph: The GuardianĢ September 1974 13,938, the debut of Custos (classics teacher Alec Robins). Debut years for Nimrod, Lavengro and Xerxes are not known likewise Nimrod and Xerxes’ identities.Įaster prize double puzzle, 1978, by Araucaria. Known debut years: Crispa 1954 Araucaria 1958 Bunthorne 1966 Gordius 1967 Janus 1968 Audreus 1969.

#Peter gordon crossword editor serial

Janus (sometime army pay office employee Frank Blakesley, latterly a serial quizshow contestant)Īraucaria (country parson the Rev John Graham)īunthorne (photographer and newscaster Bob Smithies)Īnd Audreus (former kitchen maid, factory worker and pig farmer Audrey Young Meet the Setter). Gordius (parish priest the Rev David Moseley Meet the Setter)

Lavengro (Stanley Watt, who, the crossword editor tells readers in 1978, had “jacked in banking to write for himself”)Ĭrispa (former civil servant Ruth Crisp, one of the few to make setting their living)

It is doubtful that this was John Henderson (Enigmatist of this parish and Nimrod in the Independent) as he was aged seven. Photograph: David McCoy/The Guardian The 1970s: the setters take on namesĢ8 December 1970 Under crossword editor John Perkin, pseudonyms are introduced: Nimrod is the first, for puzzle 12,819.