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Or they could push for the sort of crosswords with more black squares (very common here in Britain) that rarely have anything bigger than a 1x1 intersection. There are other ways to challenge the solver.
I only do the cryptics myself - I like that you can be confident you have the right answer without waiting for the crossers to check your guess.