The Spectator

2516: Such childish vocabulary – solution

issue 14 August 2021

The unclued lights are the nouns from the opening sentence of The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter. TAFFETA was extracted from (T)ISSUE, TULIP(A), (F)AILS, (F)REEST, EQUIP(E)S and NO(TA)TION.

First prize Robert Stephens, Bearsted, Kent

Runners-up R. Dickinson, Lewes, East Sussex; Alan Norman, Impington, Cambridge

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