April Fools

To cryptic crossword setters and solvers, every day is like April Fools' Day. Whereas the world at large is consumed with pranks, pratfalls and spoofery for ...

But of course, each of them could fit in one of two places in the grid. For example, alternate letters in ATTEST and STREET are the same (aTtEsT and sTrEeT), so the solver can insert either answer in different places. Guy Haslam, who sets the FT Weekend magazine’s crossword under the pseudonym Aldhelm, threw in references to fools in half a dozen of his cryptic clues.