ChatGPT: can artificial intelligence create crosswords?

This week, some Things of Interest to Puzzlers That You Might Otherwise Miss.

Happily, the Telegraph has also interviewed a setter, explaining:

That setter is sometime languages teacher and novelist Robyn, known locally as Picaroon. Funnily enough Robyn was also interviewed by the FT, under the name of Buccaneer. (Before that it was guinea pig enthusiast and library manager Zamorca, known locally as Hectence).

They also discuss the experience of finding love at 70.

You will literally never guess the answer.

Finally, good news for your ears:

Find a collection of explainers, interviews and other helpful bits and bobs at alanconnor.com. The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book by Alan Connor, which is partly but not predominantly cryptic, can be ordered from the Guardian Bookshop