The Guardian view on a cryptic crossword landmark: 30,000 grids of noble trickery | Editorial

For nearly a century, the Guardian has been challenging and delighting its readers with these puzzles. Here’s to 30,000 more Late in 1928, the Guardian made plans to give its readers a weekly cryptic puzzle. At the time, crosswords were considered a waste of time; other newspapers campaigned against them as a distraction keeping the working man from his duties, but the cryptic was different.