So Bobby, after visiting the canteen to get something to eat, found a corner to wait in, and there busied himself with the crossword puzzle returned to Miss Raby from the Announcer office. It was headed, as Bobby remembered it had been, when he had seen what was probably the earlier version Mr. Winterton had shown him: “A Crossword Mystery: by George Winterton. Key word: ‘Gold’ and Bobby noticed, too, that a number of the clues still had a small cross placed against them, with the reference underneath: “Clues marked with a cross require further consideration, as being either too obvious or not obvious enough”; and Bobby made the same reflection that he remembered had entered his mind before, that the happy medium was probably as difficult to construct in crossword clues as in everything else. Then he set to work on the puzzle. He did not find it very difficult, and was not much surprised that the Announcer crossword editor had dismissed it in so summary a manner.
