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!

This has just reminded me of a story told to me by a friend some years ago. He loves cryptic crosswords and always did the one in The Times (?) on Saturday where the first prize was a Mont Blanc pen. After many years of sending his completed crosswords to The Times, with nary a sniff of the first prize and Mont Blanc pen, he, with some exasperation, posted his completed crossword to The Times in his wife's name one week.

Guess who won the Mont Blanc pen?

This isn't serious is it? It's a joke?

Are we going to see anotyer thread on AIBU from your MIL with words to tye affect of:

AIBU to think this is rude?...... "I've gone to my DIL for tea and she's spent the entire time tapping away at her phone (and/or computer) when she should be the dutiful host, so i had to make my own entertainment and started filling in a crossword from a newspaper that was lying around."

Of course it's serious, Thudercatsrule. People who are 'into' their crosswords (we're usually talking cryptic crosswords here) are extremely territorial. It is an unspoken rule that you don't fill in, or try to complete, someone else's crossword without their permission.