"Now, where were we?"

      

In our previous post, we quoted Henry Blofield's description of the bowlers' run-up marks chalked on the green at either end of the Lord's wicket.

"It's like a crossword puzzle that had, perhaps, a drink too much."

          
We have been much entertained since, imagining the antics of drunken crosswords.

Not quite that, but not far off, is this early 2oth century crossword puzzle from the archive of our Paris office. Concours de perspicacité No.3 (literally Insight Competition No.3).
    

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We imagine it re-captioned : "Members of Lord's scramble to decipher drunken crossword."
       

    

We imagine, too, that 'Blowers' gets there first and, seeing it to be a meta-map, declares: "My dear old things, it appears we are here already!"
    

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