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David Baddiel Tries to Understand

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David Baddiel tries to make sense of some apparently puzzling topics.

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David Baddiel Tries to Understand: Cryptic Crosswords

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Cryptic Crosswords

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David Baddiel tries to understand the puzzling phenomenon of cryptic crosswords.

David Baddiel seeks to understand the puzzling phenomenon of cryptic crosswords. A leading crossword compiler and a crossword champion try to help him.

Continuing his new series where he tries to make sense of apparently puzzling matters, David Baddiel seeks to understand something which is meant to be puzzling: cryptic crosswords.

David gets help from a crossword champion and and also from a leading compiler who sets him a special crossword. Can he put his learning into practice and complete it?

Producer: Giles Edwards.

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