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2106: 30/3 | 18 April 2013

issue 20 April 2013

YEARLY FAST (30 3) defines LENT (36) and is also a cryptic indication of PAPACY (16A — i.e. pa + pacy).  Lent is followed by EASTER (34), marked with a BLESSING (40) known as URBI ET ORBI (2) by the holder of the papacy, currently Pope FRANCIS (28A).

First prize B. Taylor, Little Lever, Bolton
Runners-up Barry Roe, Wigston, Leicester; Robert Cross, Northleach, Gloucestershire

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