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Crossword Who's Who - R

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RADIAN

Radian is the pseudoym of Duggie Anderson for crosswords in The Independent.

RADIX

Radix is the pseudonym used by Roddy Forman for crosswords in The Listener series, the Enigmatic Variations series in the Sunday Telegraph, the Inquisitor series in The Independent, and puzzles for The Magpie.

Index of Radix crosswords in The Listener

Index of Radix crosswords in The Crossword Database

RAICH

Raich is the pseudonym used by Niall MacSweeney for crosswords in The Independent, The Listener, the Enigmatic Variations series in the Sunday Telegraph, and the Inquisitor series in The Independent, and elsewhere.

Index of Raich crosswords in The Listener

Index of Raich crosswords in The Crossword Database

RASPUTIN

Rasputin is a setter of crosswords in the Inquisitor series in The Independent.

Index of Rasputin crosswords in The Crossword Database

REDSHANK

Redshank is the pseudoym of Duggie Anderson for crosswords in the Financial Times.

Walter REID

Walter Reid was a setter of crosswords for The Guardian, in conjunction with Vincent McLachlan. Both men were teachers in Northern Ireland, and the puzzles on which they collaborated were published under the pseudonym of Gemini.

Michael RICH

Mike Rich (1940-2002), using the pseudonym Ploutos, was a renowned setter of crosswords for The Listener. His first Listener crossword was published in 1965.

From 1984 until his sudden death in 2002, he was co-editor of the Listener crossword. He also set puzzles for The Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, and The Times, and was the organiser of the Times Crossword Championship for many years.

He was educated at Christ's Hospital, Horsham (where one of his masters was Derrick Macnutt, better known to crossword aficionados as Ximenes) - and at University College, Oxford. For most of his working life, he was a financial adviser, living in Ripon, North Yorkshire. He was a keen cricketer and charity worker, and was also well known in bridge circles, representing Great Britain in the European pairs chanpionship.

C G RISHIKESH

C G Rishikesh sets crosswords under the pseudonym Gridman for The Hindu, published from Chennai, India.

As Rishi, he has blogged on Fifteensquared and Big Dave's Crossword Blog. As Chaturvasi on social networking communities on crosswords published in India, he explains clues that baffle beginners and writes on different aspects of the wordgame.

A former journalist, he was born in 1943 and lives in Chennai.

Alistair Ferguson RITCHIE

Alistair Ferguson Ritchie (1890-1954) was headmaster of Wells Cathedral School. As a crossword compiler, using the pseudonym Afrit, he set puzzles for The Sketch and The Listener. For The Listener he compiled 127 crosswords from 1932 to 1948. These were usually impossibly difficult, often securing no correct entries. Later he composed easier puzzles for The Sphere.

Armchair Crosswords, a collection of 40 of his easier puzzles, which was published in 1949, is considered a classic in the crossword world. A new edition of this book was published in 2009 by Rendezvous Press, in conjunction with Derek Harrison of the Crossword Centre.

Alec ROBINS

Alec Robins, born 7 September 1917, was Head of Classics at a girls' grammar school near Manchester. He died 28 June 1998.

For many years he was one of the leading crossword setters in the UK, setting puzzles at all levels of difficulty. He set crosswords for The Guardian (as Custos) and for The Listener (as Zander). He was also one of the setters of the Everyman crossword in The Observer, a task he shared with Dorothy Taylor).

He collaborated with the late D S Macnutt (Ximenes) in the book Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword (Methuen, 1966), for which he wrote three chapters.

He was also the author of Teach Yourself Crosswords (Hodder & Stoughton, 1975), which for a generation was the standard work on the subject.

Eric RODICK

Eric Rodick, a civilian tutor at the Police College, Bramshill, was winner of the Times Crossword Championship in 1978.

RODRIGUEZ

Rodriguez is the pseudonym of James Brydon for crosswords in the The Independent.

Richard ROGAN

Richard Rogan was born in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, in 1961. Educated at the universities of Reading, Nantes, and Lancaster, he has worked first as a linguist and later as an IT specialist and consultant.

He sets crosswords for The Times - and Times Quick Cryptic crosswords as Felix.

In February 2014 he succeeded Richard Browne as The Times crossword editor.

He has also set crosswords for The Independent (as Bannsider) and Listener crosswords (as Aragon).

RONGO

Rongo is the pseudonym used by Roger Phillips for Times Quick Cryptic crosswords.

RORSCHACH

Rorschach is the pseudonym of Jon MacKenzie for crosswords in the The Independent.

His first puzzle appeared in July 2012.

ROSA KLEBB

Rosa Klebb is the pseudonym of Sarah Hayes for crosswords in the Financial Times.

ROVER

The pseudonym of Ian Morgan (who died in July 2010) for crosswords in The Guardian.

Rover crosswords in the Guardian archive

RUFUS

The pseudonym of Roger Squires for crosswords in The Guardian.

Rufus crosswords were regarded as being at the easy end of the cryptic spectrum and were usually published on Mondays to provide an easy start to the week.

Rufus crosswords in the Guardian archive

RUSTIC

The pseudonym of James Leonard for crosswords in the Enigmatic Variations series in the Sunday Telegraph

Index of Rustic crosswords in The Crossword Database

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