Eddie picks his treble of leading contenders

IIn August 1984, I won The Observer crossword and used the prize money to buy two books, including a first-class dictionary. The Grand National is just around the corner and the late Philip Alexander, former “Methodmaker,” opened an article with “dictionary definitions are always fascinating”.
His contribution in the article could be allied to the word conundrum, “a riddle or puzzling question which turns on some hard or fanciable resemblance to things quite unalike” He stated that it was an utterance that coul...