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2518: Make a run for it? – solution

issue 28 August 2021

As suggested by 11A, other unclued lights were all anagrams of ducks: 12A drake; 16A teal; 28A redhead; 31A smew;  39A widgeon; 40A poker; 10D scoter; 20D shoveller.

First prize Tom Shaw, Clevedon, Somerset

Runners-up Sebastian Robinson, Glasgow, John Pugh, Ely, Cardiff

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