ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Jack Dunwoody - Cruciverbalist | Home - Crypic Crossword compiler, crossword puzzles</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" /> <meta name="keywords" content="jack dunwoody, Cryptic Crosswords, cruciverbalists, Crossword Compiler, Cryptic Crossword Compiler Techniques, Cruciverbalist, Finweek Weekly Crosswords, Finweek Crossword Books, Cryptic Crossword Presentations, Cryptic Crossword Workshops, Access to South Africa s leading Crossword Compiler, Techniques to Solving Cryptic Crosswords" /> <meta name="description" content="Jack Dunwoody has been compiling the weekly cryptic crosswords for South Africa's leading financial magazine Finweek since 2003." /> </head> <center> <body> <table width="1175" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > <tr> <td colspan="3"> <img src="images/web_01.jpg" width="1175" height="268" alt=""></td> <td> <img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="268" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"> <div style="background-image:url(images/web_02.jpg); width:481; height:575;"> <table style="margin-left:260px; text-align:right;"> <tr> <td class="page" style="padding-top:25px;"> <a href="index.html">Home</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="page"> <a href="products.html">Products</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="page"> <a href="contact.html">Contact Details and Links</a> </td> </tr> </table> </div></td> <td> <img src="images/web_03.jpg" width="551" height="2" alt=""></td> <td rowspan="3"> <img src="images/web_04.jpg" width="143" height="575" alt=""></td> <td> <img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="2" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div style="background-image:url(images/web_05.jpg); width:551; height:571;"> <div class="text"> <div class="heading">Home</div><br /> Jack Dunwoody was born in Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland in 1941 and was educated at Regent House School and Queens University, Belfast. His entire working career was spent in the IT industry, originally in his native Ireland, then in Tanzania and Kenya and finally in South Africa, where from 1975 to 2005, he held a number of managerial positions and directorships in Cape Town and Johannesburg.<br /><br /> Jack s first crosswords were encountered during schooldays and were invariably of the simple synonym variety, referred to as concise crosswords. Infrequent and private glances at the complicated clues of cryptic crosswords, however, did not offer a reasonable enough prospect of success. To an achievement-oriented youngster the risk of failure and the resultant blow to the ego could not be contemplated! <br /><br /> His conversion to cryptic crosswords was therefore somewhat of an accident during an Air Training Corps camp in 1958 at Hornchurch in Essex. The accident was missing the last train from London, the place was Trafalgar Square, the reason was trying to pass the time until morning. An English cadet, in the same dilemma, proceeded to do the cryptic crossword in a discarded newspaper and had enough time (all night) and interest (they only had one newspaper) to explain the quirks employed by the cryptic compiler to baffle the uninitiated. And so began a love affair with cryptic crosswords that has followed Jack around the world. <br /><br /> In 1994, having felt for some considerable time the need for somebody to try and explain cryptic crossword compilation and resolution, if only to introduce others to a pastime that costs so little but gives so much pleasure and satisfaction, Jack wrote The Penguin Guide to Cryptic Crosswords which was distributed in the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. <br /><br /> Jack has been compiling the weekly cryptic crosswords for South Africa's leading financial magazine Finweek since 2003.<br /><br /> <i>His publications include The Penguin Guide to Cryptic Crosswords (Penguin Books 1994), Finweek Book of Cryptic Crosswords (Pharos 2008), Finweek Book of Phrases for Cryptic Crosswords (Pharos 2009) and Finweek Cryptic Crosswords 2 (Pharos 2009).</i> </div> </div></td> <td> <img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="571" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"> <div style="background-image:url(images/web_06.jpg); width:551; height:128;"> <br /><div class="text">Website by: <a href="http://www.websitedesign.co.za" target="_blank" >www.websitedesign.co.za</a></div></div></td> <td> <img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="2" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <img src="images/web_07.jpg" width="481" height="126" alt=""></td> <td> <img src="images/web_08.jpg" width="143" height="126" alt=""></td> <td> <img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="126" alt=""></td> </tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-26701894-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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