The Hindu has different people setting their crosswords these days, I am told (source: from memory, some crossword egroup). One of the guys who does it is terrible, but one is quite good. If you're lucky enough to do the crossword on the day he sets it, it can prove very entertaining. As for the crossword being legendary, it *does* have a semi-mythical status. The ET crossword may be better, but nostalgia has a huge role to play here. I still see people's eyes glazing over when they mention the Hindu crossword. (As Amit would put it, it's a meme that may have outlived it's utility :-)
DH- that's the crossword I first started on, but I haven't done it in 15 years. It just doesn't have that ability to get you hooked on to it. One of the eastern papers (either the Telegraph or the Statesman) has a good crossword; I do it whenever I'm in Jamshedpur. On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Lahar Appaiah <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a very cross word for it....LOUSY. Often there are Hindi words spelt > differently at different times, sometimes the answer has NO relevance to > the > clue, sometimes the letters do not match on the across and down grid....
