Dubious Pleasure

Cryptic crosswords. Hah! What's going on there then? Someone takes all the effort to arrange interlocking words in a symmetrical grid, then they present you with a blank canvas guided by dense and impenetrable clues.

Would it not save everyone's time if the crosswords were just published with all the words filled in. Result! Job done!




And what is it with Cryptic Clues? 

28 Down: "Whale eats Horse, apparently?".  or 11 Across "Vicar aspires to enter church". What on earth does than mean, and what has it to do with the crossword. Anyway even I know that Whales don't eat Horses, so it's downright misleading.

No. We always reach for the Easy Crossword, and sometimes we don't even finish that one.

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