The Spectator

to 2367: When pigs fly

issue 04 August 2018

The quotation ‘NEVER (1A), NEVER (35), NEVER (41), NEVER (7), NEVER (32)!’ is from King Lear (V.iii.310). Lear was the FATHER (18) of GONERIL (19), REGAN (15A) and CORDELIA (23). LEAR (in the ninth row) was to be shaded.

First prize R.J. Green, Llangynidr, Crickhowell
Runners-up Brenda Widger, Altrincham, Cheshire; Alexander Caldin, Houston, Texas

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