Tim Smith – Spurtle's chief cycling correspondent and grammarian – has a dark secret.
He devises puzzles.
For your amusement and/or irritation, his Christmas-themed wordsearch ‘A Winter's Tale’ appears in the pdf below.
Answers will be published separately in the New Year. Good luck!
OK, the agony is now over (15.1.14). Answers appear in the newly added second pdf below.