I know Guests aren't supposed to start BS threads, but I've been waiting too long for someone else to get it going...

The doyen of British cryptic crossword setters, the Rev. John Graham, better known to his victims as Araucaria, is dying. With the courage of a true Stoic, he revealed it in a series of cryptic clues in a crossword.

In the Grauniad. He should have known better. They headlined it (the day after the crossword was published): "The clue is in the crossword: Araucaria has 18 across".

Araucaria has "cone"??????

Of course, it's a characteristic Guardian cockup- 18 DOWN was "cancer".

I wish the happiest of deaths to my longstanding enemy and humiliator, and hope, when the time comes, St Peter has his name spelt right in the book. Only the good die young, and he's 91.

The thread title? 7