The Spectator

to 2399: Lines of Work

issue 06 April 2019

The unclued lights form the folk rhyme ‘Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief’.  A.A. Milne (MILNE had to be highlighted) used this as the basis for Cherry-Stones, (9d) though the beggar-man became a ploughboy. Milne’s next five jobs are also mentioned in various clues.
 
First prize Lydia Miller, Vale, Guernsey
Runners-up Rafe Magrath, London SW13; Dr John Stabler, North Creake, Norfolk

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