The unclued lights form the chain (which may start at any of the words) as follows:

LUSTRE/TREMOR/MORTAR/TARPON/PONCHO/CHOSEN/SENSEI/SEICHE/CHESTY/STYLUS and then back to LUSTRE.

First prize David Hutt, Stourbridge, West Midlands

Runners-up Jenny Atkinson, Amersham, Bucks; Jeffrey Frankland, Storth, Cumbria