The poem was Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.
1A, 16, 21A, 30, 38, 8, 13, 27, 29 and 35 all appear in it.
A GRECIAN URN appears diagonally from 9.
STEAK (39) was to be shaded.
First prize Sid Field, Stockton-on-Tees
Runners-up M. O’Hanlon, North Berwick, Scotland; Hugh Schofield, Paris
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