The Spectator

2459: 22 down solution

issue 20 June 2020

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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