One character puzzles over a newspaper crossword, and following the play's layered, disquietingly fractured narrative has a similarly vexed quality.

But with obvious lack of interest, she was doing a newspaper crossword.

The image of the bowler-hatted businessman struggling to complete his newspaper crossword on the train may be a thing of the past.

Brilliant but morose, they crack codes, one of them disconcertingly presenting itself in newspaper crosswords.

It was a solitary time which she remembered as a lot of sitting in cafs, newspaper crosswords and scrawling in notebooks before any songs took shape.