Never give up on Rick Astley crossword clue

I apologise to solvers who visited the web address hidden on the perimeter of last Saturday’s prize crossword only to find they had been redirected to the music video for a Rick Astley song. In fairness, last Saturday was the anniversary of the song’s release date, the solutions to 16D and 11D were RICK and ROLL, and the initial letters of the clues spelled “NEVER GONNA TELL A LIE AND HURT YOU”. I feel I gave ample warning.
Hamish Symington (aka Soup)
Cambridge

• Damian Killeen’s letter (31 July) said that winter fuel allowances “are taxable income”. Some of us have called for years that they be such, but alas, a call unheard. Indeed one government department I worked in after the age of 65 thought so too, and I never checked the payslips.
Jeff Rooker
Pensions minister, 1999-2001

• In answer to the question, “If not yourself, who would you most like to be?”, Daphne Guinness answered “Julius Caesar” (The Q&A, 27 July). Little wonder that her answer to “What is the trait you most deplore in others?” was “backstabbing”.
John Lovelock
Bristol

• I enjoyed Fiona Kerr’s travel article about Arran (‘Scotland in miniature’: why the Isle of Arran is perfect for a family holiday, 27 July). I once was told by an elderly gentleman in the pub at Corrie: “While Wester Ross is where God lives, the Isle of Arran is where he goes for his holidays.”
Michael Church
Lincoln

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