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Christmas crossword: Organic Message solution

The Spectator
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 18 January 2025
issue 18 January 2025

Letters omitted from across answers, read in clue order, give MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SPECTATOR… the ‘organ’ in the title. 

The first prize of £100, three prizes of £25 and six further prizes of Adrian Bliss’s The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments (Century) go to the following. The first four winners will each also receive a bottle of champagne.

First prize Keith Williamson, Cambridge

Runners-up Wendy Meredith, Exeter, Devon; Henry Machin, Gateford, Nottinghamshire; Lin Barrett-West, Billericay, Essex

Further runners-up Kevin Ward, Quorn, Leicestershire; Kenneth Mills, Londonderry; Sarah Darlington, Acton Trussell, Stafford; J.J. Morris, Upper Nash, Pembrokeshire; Pam Bealby, Stockton-on-Tees; Jason James, Cambridge

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