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.

Of birds, bees and crosswords

I’ve been intending to submit this story for sharing with your subscribers for quite a few years. I think quite enough water has gone under the bridge to get away with it now! It is a wonderful tale of the innocence of youth, and I am sure that even the most sensitive and prudish [more…]

Cheryl’s Clerihew

John Jeremy George
Passionately abhorred
Crude Aussie blokes
Telling lewd, bawdy jokes

Cheryl Roach

Stumped by Baffler but love the cover!

“The quality of CRYPTICS is not simple – it dropeth down with great exasperation” CONGRATULATIONS to the graphic artist who produced this great Shakespearean cover.

My 96 year old fellow puzzler, George Howe, and my lifelong friend, Madge Sinclair have both expressed their congratulations. We are all Shakespearean Devotees. We were all stumped by the [more…]

Can stop stretching out Starhunts

Thank you so much for your generosity in increasing the number of your magazines. In the past, especially with the Starhunts, I limit the number of puzzles that I do each day so that I won’t run out before the next one arrives! Thank you again, Christine. Congratulations to you on what you do [more…]

Penny makes puzzling possible

A very big thank you for my win of the first prize of $500 for April’s BIGCash. Actually, this is the second time I have won this prize!

I am an 87 year old Chinese Singaporean and an avid doer of your crosswords for the past 15 years. This has been made possible through the [more…]

Life goes on

I’ve submitted my first DIY entry for a long time. Since Black Saturday I have been unable to send in my efforts as I found my clues were all dark, dreary and sad, and it was obvious that living so close to the devastating fires had negatively affected my thought process. So I am [more…]

Laurel’s favourite books

You ask in BIG Magazine what are my favourite books? I love anything by Jeffrey Archer and have just finished ‘Paths of Glory’, a fictional? biography of George Mallory based on letters written to his wife Ruth. After reading it the reader is left with the question, “Who was the  first man to conquer [more…]

Finally ‘cracked it’

What a surprise! After many submissions I finally ‘cracked it’. First there was your cheque for $100 for my winning entry in the Demon then there was your prize for my winning entry in Ninesies. Thank you so much.

I intend to use the money towards subscriptions to some of your publications. The newsagents in [more…]

Where do I start?

Hi Christine

I have recently turned 77 years old and I receive The Works, Mega and Code Cracker magazine. One of your readers asked where people started each crossword and my response is that I start each crossword all over the place depending on my mood , eg. The Colossus is started in the centre [more…]