Richard

CHESSBOXER - huh? EBOY - huh? SNARFING - nobody says snarfing, and everybody says scarfing.

I spent years learning Morse code in the Boy Scouts and I can confidently claim that not a single person on earth refers to ‘dits’. Morse code is made of dots and dashes.

Croquet is played on a lawn, not a yard.

23 across - ERNIE Bert and Ernie are *not* muppets. They are characters on Sesame Street. The muppet universe is completely separate from SS.

Who wears a ski cap when they run? Et viola - were you guys unable to cram a few more unnecessary French words in there? Viola would have been sufficient. Amscray? Really? Must I know assume any answer could be pig latin? ————— Can we please just have English words, with one letter per square?

I have never heard the term ‘spoonerism’ in my life.

I take umbrage with ‘lurks’ meaning ‘just watching without saying a word’. I’ve always considered ‘lurk’ to have a more nefarious meaning. Would you say that someone watching a baseball game quietly is ‘lurking’ in the stands? Probably not. A burglar sitting in their car outside your house at night is ‘lurking’.