I did buy the Staggers once. I used to take it in to school. My wife abd I won the crossword three times. It was an easy crossword. The Speccie's are quite impenetrable. I seem to remember Wendy Cope won competitions then. I stopped buying it when Richard Crossman became editor, a dreadful philistine.
If they want to appeal to today's students they will have to stop using polysyllabic words or referring to anything that happened before about 1990.
Did you know an England cricketer writes for them? I met him once. Ed Smith. He doesn't eat his vegetables.
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