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Crossword solution

Christmas crossword solution – Birthday Boy

18 January 2023

10:00 PM

18 January 2023

10:00 PM

Two unclued lights are a title (three words) and its creator (two words). Remaining unclued lights are four names and eight titles (either singly or paired, including two each of two, three and four words and one of five words), each name being associated with two of the titles. The theme word connecting them all must be highlighted in the grid.

Further prizes of Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists by Henry Eliot (Penguin) go to the following. The first four winners each also win a bottle of champagne. The solution is on p35.

The winners


First prize Susanna Heywood-Lonsdale, Inverness

Runners-up John Tyson, Gloucester; Rebecca Bull, Cardiff; Rob Hardcastle, Harrogate

Further runners-up Felicity Fairbairn, Tisbury, Wiltshire; O.F.G. Phillips, Oxford; Robert Burgon, North Berwick, East Lothian; Barry Reeve, Bath; Leslie Verth, Newton Mearns, Gloucestershire; Marianne Hepple, Lynfield, Auckland, New Zealand

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