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To 2255: In the pink

issue 30 April 2016

Oscar WILDE (35) described hunting as THE UNSPEAKABLE IN FULL PURSUIT OF THE UNEATABLE (1A, 14, 30, 42), and the huntsmen are John PEEL (12), JORROCKS (R.S. Surtees) (19) and Siegfried SASSOON (Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man) (28).

First prize Heather Weeks, Hove, East Sussex

Runners-up Hilda Ball, Belfast; Hugh Thomas, Ixworth, Suffolk

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