Still awaiting My £25 cheque from 15th August. The information, at the bottom of the crossword, states, "Please allow 30 days for prizes to arrive."
Why should the process take so long?
Yes, the SX were very naughty in dropping the nine runners-up prizes without explanation. Mind you, the Liverpool Echo Football Pink had two £10 prizes for a weekly sports quiz. I regularly won on this. Then the prizes stopped but the quiz continued - no explanation.
I once entered a difficult sports quiz of 30 questions with a good prize, in a local rag. There was no mention of it after the closing date so I went into the paper's offices to enquire. I was informed that this was a generic quiz published in all its sister's papers, throughout the north-west and that my particular rag had no intention of following it up with a list of answers or prizes!