The Archive · 1937

CROSSWORD PUZZLES

The crossword cult seems to deserve elevation from the status of craze" (0 which it was unthinkingly assigned by many people when it frst burst on the daily routine of the newspaper reading public. Regularly crossword experts lake their "medicine" by measuring their skill jin solution against standards which, frequently, they keep to themselves halfpenny The stamps of three reigns for greater pleasure in accomplish "Thus, some are content 10 delight tram being only two or pei three clues 3 ethers expect partoction in soa fand acquire their exeil The me taken in the proves, There are various visions of this ferossword distribution of honours, sible 'IL in the Tesults with a fountain the left-hand before the eyes and bacon are finished have their own feategory. The Crossword Puzzle [Guild of Shanghai has just celebrated {ls second anniversary and its monthly organ "Crossword Puzzles" shows for June a remarkably youthful vigour, having developed all kinds fof variants in the provision of clues fand having added to its monthly fenigmas a list of questions which! relentlessly expose the joints in the armour of Knowledge of more folk than will readily confess to such ignorance, "How many zoologists will, for example, be able offhand acetirutely to des shoebill, the marmot, th the Jammergeler, the whorl

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