It's still not too late to nominate other crosswords in fiction below, or to mention any other classic commuting solvers overlooked above. That's 118 cells filled with Reggie's message, which feels reasonable for a broadsheet grid. Kudos to Nobbs. Finally, where would a commuting-crossword collection be without this Two Ronnies sketch? Nominated by Boxkite and Paul Taylor, it would never have made the top ten because it associates simpler crosswords with lower class and here at Crossword Blog we believe that knowledge and wordplay are open to all. But it's still funny: All the principles of cryptic cluing are there: two bits of wordplay, CREAM and S, which combine to give the solution, S CREAM, also given a definition. Sure, the surface reading is a little clumsy, but this was an early-80s gateway to crosswords for teenagers - if the single hadn't had its airplay restricted by Radio One, who knows how many more solvers crosswording might boast today? Photograph: 2 Entertain UK Singles & Albums Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 5 September 2011.

British album certifications – Madness – Madness 7". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 March 2022.Cardiac Arrest" is a song by the English ska band Madness from their third studio album 7 (1981) and other compilation album called Complete Madness (1982). It spent 10 weeks in UK charts peaking at number 14. [1] Before that, though, we have the crossword. It's good to report that in this story the puzzle is neither part of the problem, nor an activity as pointless as work. Here it's a small, brief pleasure, albeit one that acts as a warning... The album version of the song ends after the second chorus with a dramatic cut to a coda representing the man's heart thudding and then stopping. The single version replaces this with a repeat of the more optimistic first chorus, which fades out.

The video confirms that the big American car is a Cadillac, but it's not at all clear how the rest of the wordplay gets us there from CARDIAC. "Cadillac", after all, already has a D. Still, the puzzle is a kind of hero in this tale, nominated by reader Salty Sam - which gets the single into our top ten. Reggie wrote again in the spaces of his crossword. 'Today I am seeing Mr Campell-Lewison,' he wrote. 'Mr Campbell Lewison is our new man in Germany. Mr Campbell Lewison is going to get a little surprise.' In the Netherlands the single was released as a double A-side, and peaked at number 15 in the Dutch Top 40. [2] In the US, "Cardiac Arrest" was released on the compilation album Madness and the B-side of their " Our House" single.

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Not only that, the seven-inch sleeve - which you can see here - featured an actual crossword, with proper clues: