Beginner crosswords

From Goon, but not forgotten by Patrick Skene Catling. Catling is reviewing Dear Robert, Dear Spike: The Graves-Milligan Correspondence edited by Pauline Scudamore. Spike Milligan was co-creator, writer and performer in the Goon Show from the 1950s in the UK.

A sample of their antic humor.


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From Catling's review.

My favourite example of Milligan's occasional epistolary Goonishness is a one- square 'Cross Word for Idiots' as below: The clues are:

1 Down. The indefinite article. 1 Across. 1st letter of alphabet.

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