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2729: Spelled Out 

The Spectator
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 06 December 2025
issue 06 December 2025

The unclued lights are first names of authors known by their initials: W.H. Auden (31), A.S. Byatt (40,2), T.S. Eliot (7,10), C.S. Lewis (35,6A) and P.G. Wodehouse (34,4).

First prize Marcus Clissold-Lesser, Ramsgate, Kent

Runners-up Jenny Mitchell, Croscombe, Somerset; Alison Gillam, Knotty Green, Buckinghamshire

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