Christine's Mailbag

We love receiving feedback from our puzzlers. Refer to our contact page for details of how to get in touch with any compliments or concerns. We'll get back to you as soon as possible. For your enjoyment, here's a selection of letters from Lovatts readers.

Puzzle addict and dictionary collector

You have indicated that you enjoy getting feedback so here is some. People who buy your books probably do so for many different reasons. I began years ago with Colossus. I wasn’t particularly good at crosswords then but, my son and I would sit and struggle through some clues at the breakfast table before [more…]

All referenced up

Thank you for the prize of a Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary for MEGA 65 Stinker.

Along with a couple of earlier winnings from Lovatts competitions of a Collins English Dictionary,and a Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus, hopefully I’ll be able to continue submitting successful entries.

Patrick Hooper

A Little Lovatts Ditty

I’m sat here with my Lovatts mug, crossword books and pen,
dictionaries, reference books, and my Oxford little gem,
white out, pencils, rubbers too, all to help my aim,
to finish both The Stinker and The Demon once again.

Love your crosswords.
Pauline Allen
Eaglescliffe.

Lovatts Mind Gym

I was delighted to receive a handy gadget prize in the BIG 209 competition and even more pleased to receive the accompanying letter with its encouragement to [more…]

Clever Acrostic Contributions

In our June BIG and Holiday Collection 73 we asked our puzzlers to write their own acrostic poem and send it in.  We have received many creative submissions. Here are some of them:

Gorgeous I’d call you
Wonderful one
Ever a memory
Naïve as the sun

Shy with affection
Cos youth is too lame
Always I’ll love you
None other can tame
Ere [more…]

Spooks or Angels?

I have been meaning to get in touch for some years about the frequency a word comes up on TV and it happens to be either the clue or something similar as to what I am about to fill in on a particular crossword, so answering your request. My record with one particular crossword [more…]

Crosswords the best medicine

Many thanks for the crossword magazines which I received together with the erasable pen. My crosswords are my medicine. Here’s an acronym for you. Lots Of Very Attractive Tantalizing Teasing Stinkers
Bob Clarke

Tips for left-handers

I love your puzzle books from cover to cover. The only bit I skim over is the endless tripe about left handers. You molly-dookers (I’d never heard that one before) must be used to living in a right-handed world by now. If you haven’t solved the problem yet, here are three [more…]

A friend in puzzles

What a lovely surprise when I got home from work the other day to find a parcel waiting for me from you! I was a winner in the Holiday Collection 71, and won an awesome bag and calculator! I was thrilled with this win, as I enter all your competitions, hardly ever missing one. [more…]