To think this is rude?

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Pil have come round for tea. All fine and we get on well. However, mil has picked up the crossword from today's copy of the times and started filling it in!
I realise I'm being precious but we haven't had a chance to look at it yet and enjoy filling it in(it's a big one at the weekend) together.
I'm a bit although I haven't said anything!

I agree with marywestmacott.

broody, and just as easily irked obviously. Although I am working class and and neither like crosswords or cross words

Very bad manners! I buy my newspaper mainly for the crosswords and if I saw someone pick it up with a pen in hand I would do a mock run, full body collapse on top of the paper yelling NOOOOOOOO. All with a big smile on my face & a laugh. This seems to leave the perp in no doubt about how much I like my crossword untouched by alien hands.

"It's night time though. Crosswords should be done by now"

^^ Who knew? Sometimes MN boggles my mind

Next time she comes over fill it in already so it says things like

C U N T Y B O L L O C K S M I L
W
A
T
N
T
T
H
E
B
L
O
O
D
Y
P
A
P
E
R

Buy a crossword book!

Ah, it destroyed my formatting, that vertical line should have been under the "I" .

If she knows you do it every week then it is rude. Would she take the last biscuit or go in your fridge and eat the last cream cake? Thought not. I know it sounds silly but it's not far below that. It's taking something of yours without asking, so rude, unless she thinks you never do it then I think it's ok.

snip the clues out of the paper net time, that'll fix her.

*next, not net

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Very rude. I am not allowed to start my mum's crosswords (not her mine) when visiting. But once they're about half completed, they're fair game for having a go.

Hide the paper (or just the crossword page) next time. Or pick up a crosswords puzzle book and leave that out instead. Plenty of crosswords for you all to do then.

Did mil finish the crossword op ?

No she left a lot of hard clues and cocked up some of the easy ones-

Oh no

Buy another paper?

Entertain your guests so they don't resort to doing crossword puzzles?

I just wouldn't get worked up over something like this. Poor MIL.

I would have just sat down next to her and worked together to complete it. 2 heads are better than 1 after all
You never know, you might have enjoyed it, instead of sitting there bristling

I used to love winding my dad up by just doing one or two clues (with one obviously wrong answer if I'm in an evil mood) and then leaving it for him! Never failed to get an expletive (7 letters) from him!

I'D GO APESHIT

Not really but, still, yanbu. Wwwwhatabitch.

You know you could just consider oh radical thought here but tell her it annoys you!

Er, ask her not to?

I'd go NC.

Get her a crossword book with a card saying 'here's your own as I see you love to do mine so much'.

Yabu and quite silly.

Really?

If she has done it before you must realise by now she doesnt see it as a oroblem so either buy her a copy when she is due round and make an issue of it or put your own away even just the page.

Here's a crossword clue:

Common Mumsnet problem? Rather chew worm than lie. (6-2-3)