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But may I ask whether this thread is read by:-

a). none of the major UK crossword setters?
b). some of the major UK crossword setters?
c). most of the major UK crossword setters?
d). all of the major UK crossword setters?

I guess this question is aimed at any major UK crossword setters who read these posts. You probably don't want to give away your identities... but then you're also clever enough to answer meaningfully without giving too much away...

M

Do you mean 'this site' rather than 'this thread'? Either way, I suspect it's somewhere between your (a) and (b), though that's not based on any hard evidence.

As for me, I've never created a crossword. Just dabbled as a contributor to our weekly competitions Peer Review and Clueless, and occasionally entered a clue to the Sunday Times crossword clue competition.

D'oh, thank you Steve for correcting me.

I meant 'this site'.

I'm a coelacanth!

But I'm still interested in an informed answer to my dumbly phrased question!

Hi Kt17, I hope you don't me drawing attention to this but,speaking for myself, I almost scrolled right past this thread, initially thinking it was spam. The high number of words in the title means the font size of the letters is much smaller than the surrounding threads. Also, the vague title doesn't really seem designed to catch the attention of setters.

Hi KT; don’t know but did see a post in the last couple of days complaining about the use of Latin answers in crosswords and there was a response from “asetter” so we are on at least (b)

P.S. I have enjoyed your posts on Clueless and Peer Review but you didn’t vote in the latter. Any particular reason? Would be great to have you as a full participant!

Paul, Kt

Many compilers participate. "asetter" gave some clinical analysis a few weeks ago plus lots of humour on the Pedants threads. It was nice to see him comment on the Latin point.

Gaston and Chalicea (Sunday Telegraph EV setters) have also commentated on threads re their puzzles.

I'd say that a relatively small number of my fellow setters visit the forum, and when they do so it would typically be when they have had a puzzle published and they want to see how solvers are getting on with it. Quite often we wish we hadn't looked!

If you want your feedback to be seen by the setter, I would suggest that the best place to post it is as a comment on the appropriate blog - for Telegraph puzzles, Big Dave's site (http://www.bigdave44.com); for Times puzzles, the Times for the Times site (https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com); for Listener puzzles, the Listen with Others site (https://www.listenwithothers.com); and for other puzzles (eg Independent, Guardian, FT), the fifteensquared site (http://www.fifteensquared.net).

If you want to reach setters in general, your best bet is the Crossword Centre message board (https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/crossword_centre) - this tends to be frequented by the less radical setters (ie you're not likely to reach most of the Guardian setting team through that route).

If you are simply worried about setters reading your posts on the forum and attacking you in the street (or elsewhere), there is no need for concern - we are a thick-skinned bunch ;-)

Interesting that asetter's post is marked 7 of 6.

Soup who compiled this month's Genius has been on this site commenting under the username hamishsoup.

A while back I had requested solution for Chalicea's puzzle. I think it may have been Crossword Centre site.

She got back to me and said when she is back from vacation, she will mail it to me. A week later I got it.