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'5 letters: the sort of leaves that hold up trains'
The man who sets The Observer's crosswords reaches his 2,250th puzzle this weekend.
Jonathan Crowther, who compiles the cryptic crossword, began putting together puzzles for the newspaper in 1972. How have crosswords changed since then and are they likely to survive given the declining sales of newspapers?
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