The unclued lights are the nouns from the opening sentence of The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter. TAFFETA was extracted from (T)ISSUE, TULIP(A), (F)AILS, (F)REEST, EQUIP(E)S and NO(TA)TION.
First prize Robert Stephens, Bearsted, Kent
Runners-up R. Dickinson, Lewes, East Sussex; Alan Norman, Impington, Cambridge
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