Crossword solution

2690: Resignation – solution

8 March 2025

9:00 AM

8 March 2025

9:00 AM

The perimeter quotation reads, ‘I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member’. The unclued lights STRIP, FAN, BOOK, GROUCHO and YACHT can all be followed by the word ‘club’; GROUCHO Marx is the source of the quotation, which is from his resignation letter to a Hollywood club.


First prize Donald Bain, Edinburgh

Runners-up C. Elengorn, Enfield, Middlesex; Suzanne Cumming, Plymouth

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