Oh, that is rather good. Just Foley's style, actually, annoying self-referential slumming.

I had thought Karen was doing the Guardian crossword in Falconers' Lure, but on checking I seem to have imported that detail: it's just 'the morning paper', wh. probably would be the Times, come to think. I agree that the Guardian in RMF means exactly what it means: but by then it had become roughly the modern signifier, hadn't it? I wasn't sure about the 1950s Guardian having that connotation., but it appears my mind was playing associative tricks anyway.