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2013: Rime

issue 30 March 2013

Extra words to be removed from clues were: ‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And, sorry I could not travel both’.  The lines of verse appearing in the grid (highlighted for clarity only) were ‘I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference’ from the poem ‘The Road Less Travelled’ by Robert Frost.
 
First prize Roderick Rhodes, Goldsborough, N. Yorks
Runners-up Richard Poole, Harlech, Gwynedd; J. Gill, Warlingham, Surrey

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