Crossword editor’s desk: Pendorne speaks!

A letter to the Guardian led to a solver receiving an unexpected, very special puzzle

My first words in the Guardian were, to my discredit, nothing to do with crosswords. In a column in the Guide in the mid-1990s, I recalled a tale I had heard about an envelope from some far-off land marked simply …

Lawrie McMenemy
Football
England

John Gooder
Bishop Burton, east Yorkshire

I know that postmen and postwomen take it as a matter of pride to get letters delivered. I sent it to John Gooder c/o Bishop Burton with a note on the envelope imploring the characteristic determination of said postal workers and thanking them for their professionalism and diligence – or words to that effect! Clearly my faith was well founded – chapeau! Posties of Bishop Burton!