If you plan to spend a portion of curled up on a warm sofa pondering that day's crossword puzzle, then you owe at least a small vote of thanks to a man called Leonard Dawe.An exceptional footballer, who played for both Southampton and England's amateur team before , Dawe had settled down to life as a science teacher at St Paul's School in when, in 1925, he landed a part-time second job at The Daily Telegraph.It involved the so-called 'cross-word puzzle', an American novelty which had recently crossed the Atlantic and was proving a huge hit with readers of popular newspapers.
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