The PROVERB (35) (in ODQ), associated with the KENNEDY (19) FAMILY (31), was ‘A rising tide lifts all boats’. EDIT (36) is ‘A rising tide’. WORT (9), POOLS (15D), BUT (21D), GUT (26) and LEEK (39) are ‘lifted’ boats.
EDIT was to be shaded.
First prize V. Kendall, Ware, Herts
Runners-up Geoffrey Telfer, Shipley, W. Yorks;
Andreas Fabian, Dunsden, South Oxon