Somewhere Else

We have just written another crossword puzzle. It’s on another of our favourite pastimes – reading. Many of the clues/answers are connected with books and authors.

Of course, as Abraham Lincoln commented, “You can’t please all of the people all of the time”. That’s especially true of crosswords; some people love cryptic crosswords while others hate them. So we are going to be please both groups. The crossword below is cryptic, and during the coming week we will post the same crossword but with “straight” clues. And we’ll give you the solution next weekend.

If you haven’t tried cryptic crosswords before, here are a few tips. Most cryptic clues actually give the clue twice – once in straight form, and once in a more cryptic form. So you have two chances to solve the clue, and get a real “Aha!” when you discover the answer.

One example: In the clue “Modern as Huxley’s world” (1 down, below), the straight clue is “modern”. Huxley’s world refers to Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World. So the answer to the clue is “new”. Aha!