Answers for the Solitaire grid were Across: 1 scam, 4 ton, 5 revelational, 9 deil, 10 cedar, 11 emolumentary, 13 Ladies, 14 ranis; Down: 1 stellular, 2 coat, 3 amniocentesis, 5 redeem, 6 viol, 7 nada, 8 Larry, 12 median. The order of peg removal (with Horizontal/Vertical direction where choice existed) was: AT, EL, T, S(V), U, OL, EM(H), DE, ME, V(H), NA, NT, RE(H), I(V), IO, L, C, L, LA(V), ES, IS, AN, CE, AR, A, RY, R, DI, AM, O, N, D(not removed).
The winner is R. E. Boot, of Ealing, London. The runners-up are John M. Brown, of Rolleston-on-Dove, Staffordshire and S. E. Crow, of Glenrothes, Fife.
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