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2091: plain and simple

issue 29 December 2012

The unclued Down lights are PLAIN Janes and the unclued Across lights are SIMPLE Simons.

First prize Di Arbuthnot, Hungerford, Berkshire

Runners-up Nigel Woolliscroft, Newcastle-under-Lyme; Barry Butler, Birmingham

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