dtgk 21/07/07

[columbus]

Kate Mepham strikes again 22d eugene gladstone ... american playwright etc. Surelt the the answer is O'Neill but there is only space for one L.

[gordonia]

That's the only spelling I can find as well,bit of a mystery.

[keh]

I have searched as well. I know you can spell o'neill with only one L but I can't find any reference to the spelling with one L at all. Anyone else got any ideas

[minesapint]

I've looked into this in some detail this morning.

I've used a massive online resource that Kate uses and found twenty-seven links to the major reference works containing Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Using the crossword spelling brings up nil results.

Yet if the variant spelling is typed into Google, a handful of obscure hits do appear in the first dozen or so pages. Nevertheless, I can't understand why she would have chosen the variant spelling as it's not sourced from any authoritative reference work and clearly appears to be a misspelling.

[katemepham]

Hi all,
My red-faced mistake, sorry!
The correct solution is O'Neill.
Kate M