22D was TABLEWARE, and the quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson reads: ‘The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.’
First prize Oenone Green, Feltham, Middlesex
Runners-up Stephen Saunders, Midford, Bath; Len Coumbe, Benfleet, Essex

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