Fun’s word-cross puzzle}, written by Arthur Wynne in 1913. Each clue
gives the position of the first and last letters where the entry should be written. The puzzle
features well-known words such as `neif’ and `nard’, and the solution includes `dove’ twice.

Matthew is a research software engineer (RSE) in the Advanced Research Computing Centre (ARC) at University College London (UCL). His hobbies include pretending to be called Humbug (H).
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