Although the story itself does portray crosswords as a new fad, so I have unjustly maligned Aunt Dorothy:
![Selected text from Dorothy Sayers’s short story “The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager’s Will”:
“[…] Followed his politics, and was always ready with the details of the latest big law-cases. If a young lady came to see him, he’d like to see she had her hair shingled and the latest style in fashions. They say he took up crosswords as soon as they came in, and was remarkably quick at solving them, my lord, and inventing them. Took a £10 prize in the Daily Yell for one, and was wonderfully pleased to get it, they say, my lord, rich as he was.”
“Indeed.”
“Yes, my lord. He was a great man for acrostics before that, I understood them to say, but, when crosswords came in, he threw away his acrostics and said he liked the new game better. Wonderfully adaptable, if I may say so, he seems to have been for an old gentleman.”
“Was he, by Jove?” said his lordship absently, and then, with sudden energy:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:weo4yg2k23pd2hdeqlq65iso/bafkreianfcg577nyh4dremjycciudz5ddbbb4hxb4fkyqgmgdzknil42n4)
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