Private Eye’s “Valentine Special” kicks off its cryptic crossword with a clue about a one-sided relationship. Unrequited love anyone?
The answer is a seven-letter word, the first letter of which is given to us by the initial of Westminster — ‘W’.
Follow this with two synonyms. One for ’anger’ (‘ire’) and one for chuck (‘tap’) and we get an invasion of privacy, and our answer: WIRETAP.