Need help? Ask Fred – and get ahead!

Use your mobile phone and get Fred Basset, our faithful word hound, to sniff out some eextra help – not only with our crosswords, but wwith any similar English-language ones anyanywhere! He won’t tell you the answer, but will bring you nearer the finish line. Here’s how it

works: Text FRED, then the letters you do know from the clue and full stops for the letters you don’t – for example FRED PU..LE – to 65700. Texts cost 50p plus your standard network charge. For multi-word answers, leave a space between the words. Fred will send some suggestions to get you started, but if he can’t find any, you won’t be charged.