[bbfan1991]

A crossword author has been questioned for planting hidden messages in the answers in Venezuela.

English teacher Neptali Segovia voluntarily spoke to police about the matter, after TV presenter Miguel Perez Pirela pointed out that the crossword contained several hints towards an assassination plot.

Wednesday's puzzle for the Ultimas Noticias contained the word 'asesinen', or kill, along with the name of president Hugo Chavez's brother 'Adan'.

Below there was also the word 'rafagas', meaning either a gust of wind or a burst of gunfire.

Segovia - who has written crosswords for the newspaper for 17 years - dismissed the TV report as nonsense.

He said: "I went because I'm the first one interested in having all this cleared up. I have nothing to hide."

President Hugo Chavez will run for re-election against state governor Henrique Capriles this October.

[Livia]

A similar thing happened in the UK in WW2. A crossword appeared in the Daily Telegraph just before D Day giving the names of two of the landing beaches -Utah and Omaha, the name of the naval operation –Neptune, the name of one of the floating harbours they used - Mulberry and the codename of the whole D Day operation – Overload. The crossword setter was questioned by MI5 but it turned out it was an amazing coincidence.