Thematic names are 1A/22 and 25/34, author of The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Thematic phrases appear in the shape of a double helix with mirror symmetry around the grid’s central axis.
First prize Hugh Dales, Dysart, Fife
Runners-up P. West, Birmingham; Christine Twickel, Tidmington, Shipston-on-Stour

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