Expert Solver Destroys the "World's Hardest Crossword"

[@jamesburvant3376]

I'd love to see more crosswords on this channel! also love how Mark just does not hold back on this puzzle's setter lmao

[@syholsinger]

At first, I enjoyed the sudoku videos more than the crosswords, but after so many, I think I am starting to enjoy the crossword ones or at least starting to appreciate them more. Why not do like once a week crossword videos as a mix in as you seem to have gone away from them?

[@julieenslow5915]

That's the first time I saw you in action on a crossword Mark - though of course I knew this was something you are expert at doing. I did enjoy watching you take down his "world's hardest" claim! Not that I could have done it!!

[@GenWivern2]

Always a pleasure to watch a virtuoso at work, Mark, although I now feel even more of a slowcoach than I did after watching Simon's video. Bravo.

[@beeble2003]

18a "American uncle has left grand in Wimbledon" Mark says that "grand in Wimbledon" isn't a particularly good definition of "slam". I'd say it's actually a particularly bad definition, as the Tennis grand slams are colloquially known as "slams", making "grand" rather redundant. "American uncle has left Wimbledon" already clues "slam".

[@beeble2003]

24:50 "I'm no sure [the Elizabethans] would have ever written 'muft' -- it just looked like it." Exactly. Terrible clue. The long s isn't an f: it doesn't have the cross. It did give us the integral sign, though!

[@nendwr]

Was anyone else yelling the answer to 5dn for ages?

[@sandraraituma]

This is the most bizarre crossword puzzle I have ever seen! (I have not seen many puzzles in English tho, so not much competition there.) The clues are so ... unhelpful ... to me :D My grandfather was a crossword puzzle setter, the questions here in Latvia are a bit more direct I think! This is why it would take me not 2 years but 2 lifetimes to finish this hard puzzle! :D

[@deekoei]

This is known as a "cryptic crossword" - its made to intentionally misdirect and be very tricky. Its practically a new language to learn, and extra puzzles to solve! There are direct english crosswords, but usually major british newspapers have cryptics primarily - american publications are less prone to this type

[@p.singson3910]

I love cryptic crossword puzzles. Only problem is I cannot solve all.

[@craigjessup5190]

Holy.... I thought the sudoku puzzles on the channel were hard to understand. This is ridiculous, having only solved crosswords with synonym clues

[@Arcessitor]

Late but A situation outside has all the letters for astatine in it. It was just an anagram. Also, it is the rarest naturally occurring element in the earth crust, being formed only as a product of the decay of heavier elements.

[@wellshoot]

I understood absolutely nothing, I think I’m impressed but it might be more than that

[@davehumphreys1725]

Now I know why, after 25 years, I have never solved a Times crossword puzzle! Can I ask you a question? Have you memorized the entire Chambers dictionary from cover to cover? You seem to be coming up with words that, I suspect, only 1% of the population have ever heard of!! Well done anyway.

[@rosiefay7283]

If you think the words are obscure, look at American crosswords. Very obscure words, names and initialisms, made all the harder to guess because of so many American local in-references in the clues.

[@AshleyZinyk]

I thought that 57D was going to be "CHAI". The 24th letter of the Greek alphabet is Chi, and when chi "having a" is CHAI. Of course being Canadian, I'd never heard of "char" as a drink.

[@oliverbosworth1045]

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