Opinions on this crossword, please

I think it's unacceptable in today's world. No child is illegitimate. Horrible outdated word that is now a swear word.

A name for a file, I’ve recently learned.

I think I'd make a formal complaint about this.
What are the compilers thinking???

Awful. I'd complain.

I assume BUSTARD would have fitted as well. No need to have used the word they did,

Thank you for you prompt replies.
Reassuring that we are not the only ones who thought this was well out of order.
Is a formal complaint too strong?
Hate making a fuss but think it’s well out of order.

God point, grumpa

Stuck in the nineteenth century, aren’t they ? I do ancestry research and it still makes my skin crawl to see people described as ‘ bastards’ on the church baptism rolls. I wouldn’t complain, just feel sorry for people with this attitude.

I am sure I am not the only GN born out of wedlock and I agree, it is offensive to use it in this context in this day and age.

As far as I am concerned, it has come, through common usage, to be a relatively mild swear word that means somebody who has done something one disapproves of. I use in this context myself occasionally.

Well if nobody complains they will go on using such words and see it as OK

By not speaking up we are complicit, as Niemöller would have said.