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Aramis, try English cryptic crosswords. Because they don't have as many checked lights they can have a much wider range of words.



Not grasping what 'checked lights' are about but some of those Brit puzzles are quite challenging. Never saw one that suggested Elmer Fudd was a pig, either. [Not making this up, really!] As Fromage suggested, there should be an 'Angry Mob with Torches Out to Get Bad Crossword Writers' club.



Cheese! Some people. Anyway, "checked lights" refers to the fact that in your standard USn puzzle every letter is part of both a down word and an across word. In your standard Brit puzzle (and what we USns call cryptics) about half the letters are only in a down word or an across word.