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...In its heyday, the top home players always competed, with occasional dazzling successes such as Sir George Thomas, better known for badminton, in 1934-35, and Hugh Alexander, codebreaker and FT chess columnist...
...Zant-Boer, Farthingstone, England Crossword 16,338: Ailsa Bolton, France; John Morrissey, Surrey, England; RK Ajayakumar, Croydon, England Polymath 1,050: Anthea Sinclair, Edinburgh Crossword 16,332: Thomas...
...That in turn took its title from Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”....
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