Christmas Puzzle


Puzzle This!

By Peter Cox
December 19 2006

MTWD Friend Peter Cox has devised this amazing puzzle and offers his amazing book, Sixty summers, as a prize. All you need to do is to fit the names of all the Middlesex players who have played test cricket for England since World War 2 into the grid. Simple, yet fiendish. Do have a go. Mark, one of the Mighty Turkeys, has set up an excellent photograph site for Middlesex supporters’ photos

Do you know all the Middlesex players who have played test cricket for England since the Second World War? 

 

Friend of MTWD, Peter Cox, is prepared to stake a copy of his highly-praised book “Sixty Summers” that you cannot:

 

http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s66/st96627.htm

 

 

So try to fit the names of all those players into the crossword puzzle below.  This puzzle is simple, yet fiendish.  Do have a go.

 

 

All you need to do is e-mail your solutions to:

 

mtwdadmin@googlemail.com

 

Please use the subject line “Middlesex Test Players Test”.

 

There are several ways you can enter:

¨     Simply list your answers in an e-mail using crossword order for the “across” names and then the “down” names.

OR

¨     Request a copy of the word format of the above grid by e-mail to the above address, then fill in the grid and e-mail back the completed document.

OR

¨     Print out this page, write your answers into the grid, scan the grid and e-mail the scanned document to the above address

 

As a tie breaker, please complete the following sentence in no more than 15 words: I would like a copy of Sixty Summers by Peter Cox because: ________________________________________

 

 

 

 

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Stumps for this competition will be drawn at 23:59:59 GMT on 15 January 2007.

 

Please note that, at the time of writing, neither Joyce nor Dalrymple had played test cricket for England, so neither of them feature in this game, even if one or both of them are selected in the meantime.

 

It’s a fabulous prize, believe me, so get going folks.  It’ll while away the long winter nights…….

 

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