ST 4417

[BigDomTheFirst]

Does anyone else have the feeling that they have done this crossword before?......

[dr b]

yes, it is 4383 from August 2010

[dr b]

sorry, 4393

[BigDomTheFirst]

Thanks for confirming! My mind is at rest, i really thought i'd lost the plot lol

[BigDomTheFirst]

does this happen alot with the sunday times?

[mikey4444]

Is this true ? Does the Sunday Times really re-cycle their crosswords ? And after such a little time ?

Don't know what anybody else thinks but I reckon its completely crazy ! How on earth does the newspaper expect to get away with it ? If they left it a year or two maybe but less than 6 months is just not on. We readers are being taken for a ride !

Does anyone know if this is common with other newspapers ?

[dr b]

Peter Biddlecombe (new editor) said this on the Crossword Club forum:

"Apologies for the repetition - definitely not intended. I'll be working out what to do about in the next day or so. "

[mikey4444]

Thanks dr b. Do you think this means that it wil be declared null and void ?

[BIll]

Ckue for 26 across differs -- answer the same!

[minotaur333]

It could be worse: I once won the New Statesman crossword, and a few months later the same grid came up in the ST!! So, I started checking, and there was a pattern. A NS croggy would turn up in the ST after about three months.
I also wonder why an answer turns up in Xwords in several papers within a few days. Are all the setters using the same computer programme, or are all the X-words created at a centre and bought in? I shall scream if NYALA tryns up againg in the Telegraph, or EXpress, or......