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crossword-puzzle-code

The use of crossword clues as a covert communication code symbolizes intelligence and camaraderie under surveillance.

1 chapter across 1 book

Blackout (2011)Connie Willis

Chapter 48

In this chapter, Mike Davis, an injured American war correspondent, meets fellow patient Hugh Tensing in a hospital during World War II. They form a cautious partnership to secretly exercise and hasten their recoveries by taking turns guarding each other from hospital staff. Tensing is discharged unexpectedly, and Mike soon encounters another patient, Private David Hardy, signaling the arrival of the retrieval team Mike had hoped for.