Roger Squires - Publications

Publications

Many crossword anthologies, including The Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, and the Herald include cryptic puzzles by Squires, including one book devoted solely to 100 of his Guardian cryptics. In collaboration with Ken Guy he produced three general knowledge books on the "The 1950s" "The 1960s" and "The 1970s". He has been featured in a number of crossword books, viz. Jonathan Crowther's "A-Z of Crosswords", ex-Daily Telegraph crossword editor Val Gilbert's "80 Years of Cryptic crosswords" and "A Display of Lights (9)", the latter describing the lives of the Telegraph's six greatest Cryptic Crossword setters - of which Roger is the only one still living, Sandy Balfour's acclaimed memoir "Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose(8)" - the title came from a Squires Guardian clue - and his "A Clue to Our Lives - 80 Years of the Guardian Crossword" in which he describes Squires as "a legend in the crossword world", and in Don Manley's "Chambers Crossword Manual". In 2008 the Shropshire Star published an article, "Editor’s tribute to cryptic king Roger" about Squires' inclusion in "A Display of Lights (9)".

In 2000 the Times Educational Supplement published an article titled "Clued up" in which Roger was interviewed by Steven Hastings.