The Spectator

2678: Winning words – solution

issue 23 November 2024

The unclued lights are four female winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

First prize Angela Robinson, Brighton, East Sussex

Runners-up Elizabeth Knights, Walton Highway, Wisbech; Andrew Vernalls, Milton Common, Thame, Oxon

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