David Astle has written two novels, plus five non-fiction works:
Cluetopia, Puzzled, One Down, One Missing, Offbeat Australia and
Riddledom. Between books, he drives the world to delight and
despair as Friday's crossword setter, DA, appearing in both The
Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Actor Geoffrey Rush, in fact,
describes David as 'the Sergeant Pepper of cryptic crosswords - a
complete mind fuck'. Which is possibly a compliment. David was the
former dictionary bloke on SBS's Letters and Numbers, while his
feature stories have tackled luck, lying, drowning and fridge
magnets, to name a few topics. His short stories have won several
awards, including a trip to Beijing via Dublin as part of the James
Joyce Suspended Sentence Prize in 2001.
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