Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword Headliner From Cleopatra to Amelia Earhart

From Cleopatra to Amelia Earhart

after thinking it over for some time

'The Fall of the House of Usher'

Lands of Lost Borders

But together

Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword Headliner From Cleopatra to Amelia EarhartIn the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates the wit, ingenuity and frustration of setting and solving puzzles. From the beaches of D Day to the imaginary worlds of three dimensional crosswords, to the British school