The company, Personal Crosswords, sends reward cards containing a crossword he has developed, featuring the title in the recipient. And he has taken his clearly show, Cracking Cryptics, to literary festivals, clubs and venues up and down the nation, to audiences ranging from quite a few hundred to some rows in a very village hall.

I wish to see him putting pressure on the opposite two. If Thorne was to return in for the couple online games, I do think we'd see him get much better and…