What An Extraordinary Debut! The Times Crossword Masterclass: 8 August 2025

Ed Hall makes his debut in today's ‪@TheTimes‬ crossword and WHAT a debut this is. An entire puzzle full of the most beautiful and brilliant clues. Enjoy!

The puzzle is available to play on The Times crossword club website (which is behind their paywall):
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/puzzleclub...

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The Scrabble tournament video mentioned by Simon during the introduction can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/GSgPYlGq...

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