This document contains a collection of references to various TV shows, books, newspapers, and other media. It mentions The Two Ronnies BBC sketch comedy show from 1974, Arthur Wynne who created the first crossword puzzle in the New York World newspaper in 1924, and several other novels, films, and TV shows from the 1980s and 1990s like M*A*S*H, Friends, and One Foot in the Grave. It also includes quotes from crossword solvers and references to crossword and puzzle websites.

1. Two Girls,
One on Each Knee
Alan Connor

2. v class
v hypocritical newspapers
v language
v solving technique & cheating
v spies
v magic
v the future
amongotherthings…

3. The Two Ronnies
BBC, 1974

4. “. . . a way of starting
the day that had
become during those
months a pattern, the
way I had come to read,
or more to the point
not to read, the paper.”

5. Arthur Wynne

6. Arthur Wynne

7. Simon, and Schuster

8. Margaret Petherbridge

9. -- The Times,
9 December 1924

10. -- Timeshift
BBC, 2008

13. -

14. -

15. -- One Foot in the Grave
BBC, 1993

16. Got up
Had shave
Did Times crossword
Had another shave

17. -- The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
ITV, 1987

18. slow
solving

19. M*A*S*H, The Smoking Room, The Hour

20. Oliver’s Travels, The Freshman, The West Wing

21. Friends

22. diddybums, (n.)

24. Leonard Dawe

33. ‘Rather easy today,’ he said.
‘Damned if I think so,’ said
Peter Cartwright.

34. calendarpuzzles.co.uk

35. UK US
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