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Graham Stewart | 23:16 UK time, Sunday, 22 March 2009

Having presented Morning Extra for almost 10 months now, I'm considering early retirement. They say it's always best to leave on a high and that pinnacle in my career was undoubtedly confirmed on Saturday.

Yes, dear reader, I was '28-across' in last week's Daily Record "Big Prize Crossword".

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I've been immortalised, at last, as... a crossword clue! It doesn't get any better than this. (Well, apart from being '1-down' perhaps.)

Granted, it's not quite the same as being immortalised as a statue — although I have asked Jeff to have my bust mounted on a plinth outside Pacific Quay — but it beats winning a ! Now I can walk past the likes of Edi Stark with my head held high. She may have a string of Sonys to her name, but has she ever been '28-across'? No, of course she hasn't!

When a friend alerted me to my new-found fame, I waited for the punchline. "What's the clue?" I said. "Annoying loud whine? Irritable noise?"

But no, I was just plain old 'Radio presenter (6,7)' — high praise indeed given that many prefer to preface that with the words "excuse for a".

Of course, it's not all about me. Perish the very thought! I feel that by lending my name to a clue I've given something back to the community. As one cheater — sorry, 'contributor' — on a certain said: "For 76 down, Graham Stewart will give you the required T."

That's how useful I've become. By lending a "T" to the intersection between two clues I may have been the difference between failure and a fat £500 cheque for some lucky reader. Surely the very definition of "public service"?

One thought haunts me though. This is apparently the second time my name has been used as a clue in the Daily Record crossword. So, either the compiler is a big Morning Extra fan... or I'm considered so obscure that my name is a sure-fire way of stumping everyone! Hmm... probably best you don't answer that one!

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