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2089: backward and forward

issue 08 December 2012

The unclued lights (16D/21? 16D/16A/23/38/24/11/14?) form a quotation by SHYLOCK in The Merchant of Venice. A number of references to the play and its opposition between Jews and Christians were included in the clues.

First prize Hilda Ball, Belfast
Runners-up
Philip Hawkins, Matlock, Derbyshire; Michael Debenham, Shrewsbury

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