It was quite right to mark Rover’s passing here and, of course, “de mortuis nihil nisi bonum dicamus.” But it’s hardly appropriate to take issue with expressed opinions, however harsh, of his crosswords while he was alive.

I didn’t know Rover, and I guess that pretty much all who visit the crossword center are Listener, or advanced cryptic solvers. Rover not being that style of setter, made more sense for all to reply here as this is a daily cryptic site – in which Rover was part of.