Crossword-Solution: ANNOTATION 10 letters, 39 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

She chased the song like a hound fast upon a scent. She pursued it through a forest primeval: a dark land planted with musical staves and rests and grown thick with briars of annotation. On she went and on still until she caught sight of the song ahead of her, fleeting and sly. “I see it,” she said aloud, though she didn’t mean to.

For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there — and according to the pioneers of time travel, it’s one of the foundation stones of the Theory behind it. It’s something of a paradox — a mind-boggling annotation in the ever-puzzling and ever growing Anals of History. (Some readers may still be thinking that should be ‘Annals’ — however, the author of this work cannot be blamed for what you may think.)

I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry publisher, and to apply to stand-up the same sort of weight of annotation that you would to a classic work of literature, an epic poem. I thought that would be funny.