The Spectator

2534: Off-pitch – solution

issue 18 December 2021

The unclued lights are cricket fielding positions.

The clues contain the names of 12 present and former England cricketers: Old, Such, Onions, Grace, Jones, Crawley, May, Prior, Wood, Stokes, Cook, Anderson.

First prize Alan Pink, Crowhurst, East Sussex

Runners-up Amanda Spielman, London SW4; Roger Vander Steen, Edinburgh

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