Award-winning comedy show in which Ashley Haden and the audience do a crossword and laugh, during the Scarborough Winter Fringe.
Ashley Haden brings his award-winning comedy show, Crosswords, to Grind & Tonic on Friday 30 October. The premise is as simple as the title: they do a crossword and they laugh, and Haden invites the audience to leave their technology behind and get involved. It's an hour of comedy built around a puzzle, with the crowd helping to fill in the blanks along the way.
The show falls during the Scarborough Winter Fringe, an open-access arts festival running from 29 October to 1 November 2026. The Fringe is part of the Scarborough Fair, the town's year-round series of festivals. If you've been following the Fair, you'll know it's a broad spread across the calendar: Scarborough Streets brings street art and performance in May and October; Scarborough Art focuses on visual arts in July and November; Scarborough Extreme is the sports and music festival in September; and Scarborough Lights takes over in November and December. The Winter Fringe sits right in the middle of that autumn-to-winter stretch, and Haden's show is one of the acts on the bill.
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It's a straightforward setup—a comedian, a crossword, and an audience that gets to pitch in rather than just watch from the seats. If you're usually the one shouting answers from the sofa during the morning papers, this is exactly your kind of night. The show runs for 60 minutes, starting at 7:00 PM at Grind & Tonic in Scarborough.
