Roger Squires

Roger Squires of Ironbridge, Shropshire is a crossword compiler who has had a world record 2 million clues published. The two millionth clue, published in the Daily Telegraph on 14 May 2007, was '1 Down - Two girls, one on each knee (7)'. Squires, a member of Mensa and The Magic Circle, was a Fleet Air Arm observer in his early-20s and became a full-time crossword compiler in 1977.

Squires is recognised by Guinness World Records as "The World's Most Prolific Crossword Compiler". He appeared in the Guinness Book of Records from 1978 until all crossword records were dropped in 2002, though they were continued online until 2006. An update is expected in the 2008 print edition. He has now published over 66,000 crosswords in total. His crosswords have appeared in 564 outlets, including 105 publications in 32 countries outside the UK. He holds the record for the longest word used in a published puzzle: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which he clued as an anagram.

He has set crosswords for virtually every British newspaper, under pseudonyms including Rufus, Icarus, Hodge and Bower, and he has produced a 3D crossword that fits on a Rubik's Cube.

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Roger Squires was born in Tettenhall, Near Wolverhampton, U.K. on 22nd February 1932. Now lives in Ironbridge, Shropshire. He began setting crosswords in 1963, went full-time in 1966. Crossword editor of the Birmingham Post for 22 years from 1981.