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[illegible] 15, 1958
L.S. Dawe
20 Beaufort Road, Ealing, W 5
Peuvale
4351

ret'd

A CROSSWORD
WORRIED M.I.5

Daily Telegraph CLUES
Daily Telegraph Reporter

Mr. L. S. Dawe, senior compiler
of THE DAILY TELEGRAPH cross-
word, said on B.B.C. television last
night that M.I.5 interviewed him
about the puzzle a few days before
D-Day in 1944. A number of
“ highly confidential code-words ”
had appeared in the crossword in
the previous fortnight, including
Mulberry, Pluto, Neptune, Over-
lord, the whole lot.

He was in Surrey when M.1.5
descended on him and produced a
list of about a dozen code-words
which had appeared in the cross-
word. He told them that they should
have warned him about them before-
hand.

“ What made it more awkward
was that I was sharing a house with
my brother-in-law, who occupied a
very high position in the Admiralty.
They turned me inside out and col-
lected Naval Intelligence and grilled
my brother-in-law. They went to
Bury St. Edmunds, where my senior
colleague, Melville Jones, was living,
and put him through the works.

“ They eventually decided not to
shoot us after all. This was on the
Saturday before D-Day ”

PUZZLE ON SCREEN

Mr. Dawe was interviewed by
Derek Hart in the programme “ To-
night” Crossword No 10.001 which
appeared in THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
yesterday, was illustrated on the
screen

Mr. Dawe said that he tried never
to use a clue twice, but if he had
to do so he had to "cloak" it.
Howlers did not appear so often now
as in the early days, when spelling
mistakes crept into the actual
square

Many a time a double entendre
had crept in and rocked the Stock
Exchange. Once the Art Editor
telephoned and pleaded with him to
cultivate a more worldly mind