CROSSWORDS
Sir-‘"Edwd." (Nelson) has written to point out an error in the location of the "damned © spot" of R.W.H.’s clue. My quatrels with her are that: (1) While she will always give both scene and act for even the most hackneyed line of Shakespeare, she gives only Paradise Lost for a clue from that epic of twelve books and many thousands of lines. Fortunately, I know my Milton reasonably well, and have easily located
all her Miltonic lines so far, but what am I to do should she ever refer us with like brevity to The Ring and the Book or The Faerie Queene? (2) Her definitions are far too easy; they blow too much of the gaff. Terser ones that tell you everything and yet for a long while don’'t-that’s the kind of definition the true crossworder loves to try. his wits on, Thanks, however, to the lady for her weekly effort.
F. K.
TUCKER
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 814, 4 March 1955, Page 5
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157CROSSWORDS New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 814, 4 March 1955, Page 5
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