 He has been featured in a number of crossword books about Squires' inclusion in "A Display of Lights (9)".In 2000 the "Times Educational Supplement" published an article titled "Clued up" in which he was interviewed.Apart from crosswords, he is qualified for membership of Mensa and The Magic Circle, and he was a Fleet Air Arm observer in his twenties, during which time he qualified for the Goldfish Club (for survivors of aircraft ditchings) by escaping from his Gannet AEW aircraft 60 feet below the surface off Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in March 1961.