From her assistance with crosswords to a wink that set a career in motion, Guardian readers share favourite memories of the actor From her assistance with crosswords to a wink that set a career in motion, Guardian readers share favourite memories of the actor In the 70s I wrote radio plays. Prunella Scales was in one of them. During a break I was doing a crossword and getting stuck. She sat down next to me and had a look at the mess I was making. “Silly boy!” she said (I was perhaps 30 at the