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Crossword Fever Grips London Puzzlers and Spies Alike
London readers on trains and subways pore over crosswords as detectives of language. The piece traces puzzle culture from British Times contests to the covert overlap with espionage, noting famous makers like Anthony Grey and the long tradition since the 1920s.
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Lord
Mulberry
Normandy
Hushbush
Artillery Row
George Blake
Wormwood Scrubs Prison
Blake
Foreign Service
Moscow
Wormwood Scrubs
Soviet Union
Grey
Reuters
China
Peking
London Times
The
Times
Daily Telegraph
the Observer
Tipperary
Britain