Hello all, Mickey...oh yes they would. I emailed the Daily Telegraph and they replied that the answer is RIDDLES. Someone messed up there. For reasons that defeat me they are still accepting the completed puzzle with RIDDLES as the answer. I will probably be shooting myself in the foot if someone on here wins and I don't but that is my good deed for the day :)
Lol, I stand corrected, housemouse. What I should have said is that in a crossword without errors, they wouldn't have the answer, as a word in its own right, in the question.