Books by Jonathan Crowther

Jonathan Crowther was born in Liverpool in 1942, and was educated at Rugby School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read classics. He joined Oxford University Press in 1964 and worked for OUP in India, London, and Oxford for 35 years, latterly as an EFL lexicographer, before retiring in 2000. Jonathan 'discovered' XIMENES, the father of cryptic crosswords, while still at Rugby and became an instant convert. After leaving university he started submitting occasional puzzles to The Listener under the pseudonym Gong, a family nickname, and competed in Ximenes competitions until taking over from him in the Observer after his death in 1971. Azed No. 1 first appeared in the Observer in March 1972.