Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword Headliner From Lawmakers to lawbreakers

From Lawmakers to lawbreakers

Lands of Lost Borders

Mrs Symmington

after thinking it over for some time

and exhilarating to read

Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword Headliner From Lawmakers to lawbreakersIn the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates the wit, ingenuity and frustration of setting and solving puzzles. From the beaches of D Day to the imaginary worlds of three dimensional crosswords, to the British school