13 1A 23 22 is from SHELLEY’S ‘Ode to a Skylark’. Other unclued lights had ‘a poet hidden in the light’: OVID in 6A; LARKIN in 16; ELIOT in 17; TATE in 42; AUDEN in 43. Two poets’ names in the puzzle’s real title, ‘A Poet Skylarking’, needed highlighting.
First prize Wilf Lewsey, East Leake, Loughborough
Runners-up Lewis Corner, South Fremantle, Australia; Roger Sherman, Richmond, Middlesex
The Spectator
to 2355: A Poet Skylarking

issue 12 May 2018
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