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Solution to 2094: A little down

issue 26 January 2013

Corrected definitions were: 12A camper; 15A bairn; 28A plants; 37A yearn; 39A fines (pl. of finis); 43A beard; 6D paras; 19D vice; 25D coin; 40D shot. Missing letters spelt MILES DAVIS, whose work 42A defines the other unclued lights.

First prize C.R. Haigh, Hassocks, West Sussex
Runners-up Heather Kingham, Barnay, France; John Driver, London SE13

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