Twenty Years of Magpie Crossword Magazine

Around these parts, we met some of the people behind The Magpie subscription magazine, including Jason Crampton, aka Jack in this newspaper's Genius Puzzles, and Word Champion serial crusaders Mark Goodliffe, as well as some of his carriers, such as Chalicea.

What do the puzzles look like? Well, we recently mentioned one, Two Grids with One Stone. Ruled by Twin, it had the two grids you'd expect from the title, but only one set of hints across and one set of hints down. Each clue gave, equally equally, two different answers and, to the solver's growing astonishment, all the answers managed to agree with each other. More often than not, a puzzle has an unexpected theme, or a delightful ending that reveals hidden messages in a filled grid.

This brain flexing has been going on for 20 years now, we so we decided it was time to meet the Magpies.

This year's themes included a song by Victoria Wood, the movie Scott Pilgrim vs the World, an object impossible and Burgundy wine. Is it all up for grabs, and how well do you think solvers already know about these things? Nothing within reason and good taste is off limits, whether in terms of thematic material, grid design, grid manipulation or even interaction between different puzzles w...