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To 2227: Word building

issue 26 September 2015

The word pyramid runs from CAN at 7A, then 35, 36, 30, 5, 2, 21D, 19 to CONSIDERATE at 1A.

First prize John Sparrow, Padbury, Bucks

Runners-up Andreas Fabian, Dunsden, Oxon; John Newell, Kingston upon Thames

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