The word pyramid runs from CAN at 7A, then 35, 36, 30, 5, 2, 21D, 19 to CONSIDERATE at 1A.
First prize John Sparrow, Padbury, Bucks
Runners-up Andreas Fabian, Dunsden, Oxon; John Newell, Kingston upon Thames

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