to 2321: Cleaner

The key word is DENTIFRICE (38), which can be divided into DENT defining 11, 21, 33; IF 13, 20, 27; and RICE 4A, 12, 18.

First prize Trevor Speak, Dursley, Glos

Runners-up Victoria Estcourt, King’s Somborne, Hants;

J.S. Roberts, Rodmell, East Sussex