Double-Crostic

One reason for Fry's executive success was a phenomenal memory; he knew parliamentary procedure by heart and never found a Double-Crostic puzzle that he could not solve.

Read thus, The Second Stone offers some of the rarest pleasure of the year, combining the attractions of Scrabble, the double-crostic, literary name-spotting and one-upmanship with the humbler delights of the whodunit.

Indeed, the score packed so many syllables and notes into each bar that it gave the sensation of a double-crostic for the ear.

Unhappily the solution to this Double-Crostic of a novel does not spell out, as with Shakespeare, "Magic is the Lord of All these Revels," but a lesser truth: Pamela Hansford Johnson is a Very Clever Woman.

He finishes his mother-in-law's Double-Crostic, his father-in-law's sentences and the neighbors' bridge bids�in short, the perfect quiz contestant.