E: 04/01 Win £250 - Private Eye Crossword No. 615 (Email)

Midnighter

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/crossword

ACROSS

12. DERMATITIS
13. ROLLS
14. TUMESCENCE
15. ACTS UP
17. SPONSOR
18. NATIONAL DEBT
19. MARSUPIAL
21. CAMILLA
23. CLIMACTIC
28. TIRADES
29. PORTMANTEAU
31. KNEADS
32. SERIAL KILLER
33. TODAY
34. GLISSADE
35. HAUGHTY
37. SONG
38. SWAN
40. LE MONDE
45. GRANDEUR
47. EAGER
49. ASSAULT RIFLE
51. SMITER
52. JACK RUSSELL
53. PAY CASH
54. LIMOUSINE
55. CALYPSO
57. TWO HEARTS
59. STATEN ISLAND
63. SOLUBLE
64. PATTEN
66. CREMATORIA
67. SCOTS
68. EXPERIENCE

DOWN

01. TRUMPS
02. KNOT
03. STATESMANSHIP
04. PENSION
05. NEBRASKA
06. COOLER
07. TOMTIT
08. SWISS ARMY KNIFE
09. FRIEND
10. DISINCLINED
11. LIMBO
16. POP IDOL
20. SURFING
22. INMATE
24. LOUNGE
25. CRESS
26. OPALESCENCE
27. DENY ONESELF
30. RERUN
36. THE PRESENT TIME
39. WEAVE
41. OKINAWA
42. TROJAN
43. TRASHY
44. GUNPOWDER PLOT
46. NOT SO
48. GORMANDISER
50. TOY SHOP
56. SALESMAN
58. OBJECT
60. TIMING
61. STREW
62. ABACUS
63. SPONGY
65. TWEETS
69. REEF

'DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHICH BRIT DID ADOLF HITLER CALL THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN IN BRITAIN? MARGARET THATCHER'

Entries: Send your completed entries via post to Crossword, Private Eye, Carlisle Street, London, W1D 3BN or via email to crossword@private-eye.co.uk.

Blulu

Sorry, but I'm confused about the Hitler/Thatcher quote. Should we include it in the email, and if so, both the question and answer? I did click through to the link, but I still couldn't suss what to do

Blu X

megamitts

It was Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Thatcher was 20 when the war ended.

However, the question in Private Eye is: Running clockwise around the shaded squares, starting top left, is a question (slightly reduced to fit the grid) and the contestants two word answer as featured in Dumb Britain in 2017.

Private Eye has a section called Dumb Britain that features answers on quiz shows that are painfully wrong. So somebody on a quiz show answered "During the second world war which Brit did Adolph Hitler call the most dangerous woman in Britain" with "Margaret Thatcher."

So you need to do the crossword and send in the question and answer. Hope that clears it up for you Blulu

Blulu

Thanks Megamitts, and also Midnighter, of course

Blu XXX