Here is its eulogy, a collection of the kind words written about it while still among the living. They shall live on forever in its place.

Celebrity wordsmiths David Mitchell, Ian Hislop, Hardeep Singh Kohli and Danny Wallace feature in a new online crossword published today to help Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people, raise funds over Christmas.

The game cleverly reinvents a much-loved format, challenging the player though interactive celebrity video clues. Players attempt to solve five rounds of clues that rise in degree of difficulty, starting with Hardeep Singh Koli's 'Hazelnut' to Ian Hislop's 'Brazil nut' ('the hardest nut to crack at Christmas!').