David Green

David Green (Books) is the imprint under which I publish booklets of my own poems, or did. The 'Collected Poems' are now available as a pdf. The website is now what it has become. It keeps me out of more trouble than it gets me into. I hope you find at least some of it worthwhile.

Sunday 25 November 2012

The 99th Anniversary of the Crossword

I saw that it was the 100th anniversary of the crossword and so thought I'd compose one to mark the occasion. Now that I've done it and I look up the story, it seems the first crossword was published in December 1913. And so it's only the 99th.


Across 

1.   Larkin book ceded these evils differently (3,4,8)
9.   Edited Reid poems established again (9)
10. View six with half of stable (5)
11. Skint Ross includes openings (6)
12. Roman poet sounded direct (8)
13. Not meant to be satirical (6)
15. Detected, O’Connor wept (8)
18. Boris’s hair in limousine appetizers (8)
19. Dawn’s language (6)
21. Witches touchdown in city (8)
23. Hound deaf Ghanaian has (6)
26. A payment for islands (5)
27. Novice driver with dog in vehicle (4,5)
28. Shins cad refined, refined and lost the vote (15) 

Down 

1. Violinist coach changed in first half of ties (7)
2. Poet in deli others use (5)
3. Brass for economic group to ring pointlessly before one hesitation (9)
4. Ribbon Lisa shabbily conceals (4)
5. Arcade we destroyed with Wulf’s rival in poetry (8)
6. The King the Spanish only half visits (5)
7. Emperor’s scooter ran over Welsh girl (9)
8. Slowly intoned impasse was ahead (7)
14. Clear about 6 unaware (9)
16. Approx. one fleet onward to station for Brief Encounter (9)
17. Great jumper in the early spring, a fiework all year round (8).
18. Ford or Cliff (7)
20. Old Administrative division C (7)
22. Filipino language includes singing sisters’ name (5)
24. Rash for bees (5)
25. Plan on including unsigned work (4)