Crossword solution

Solution to 2516: Such childish vocabulary

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

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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