The Crossword Scare, 1944

Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 15:19
WW2 - still with us
Ben Johnson, Historic UK

Alarm bells rang throughout MI5 …was the crossword being used to tip-off the Germans?

Two officers were sent immediately to Leatherhead in Surrey, where a man called Leonard Dawe lived. He was the crossword compiler, a 54 year-old teacher.

Why, the officers demanded to know, had he chosen these five words within his crossword solutions?

“Why not?” was Dawe’s indignant reply. Was there a law against choosing whatever words he liked?

h/t: 
logprof, Ace of Spades
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