SOLUTION TO OUR SEPTEMBER CROSSWORD

Across: 7 Hoover 8 Thracian 11 Thermopylae 12 KGB 13 Leningrad 14 India 16 Acadia 18 Saigon 21 Lasso 22 Schindler 24 Edo 26 Hippocrates 27 Blind eye 28 Harald Down: 1 Whittle 2 Copernicus 3 Yeoman 4 Khalid 5 James III 6 Silk 9 Nubian 10 Sparta 15 Diocletian 17 Drogheda 18 School 19 Allenby 20 Crusade 22 Sepoys 23 Norman 25 Ovid 12 WINNERS OF FIRST WORLD WAR 1916 T Carroll, Nottingham; J Foxall, Birmingham; A Alcoe, St Albans; R Gillard, Malvern; P Fisher, Wilmslow; R Brentnall, Brentwood; D Petrie, Liverpool; P Jones, Stockton- on-Tees; H Fluch, Cheltenham; P Lynch, Bingle; D Archer, Macclesfield; J Sutton, London

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The closing date and time is as shown under How to Enter, above. Entries received after that will not be considered. Entries cannot be returned. Entrants must supply full name, address and daytime phone number. Immediate Media Company ( publishers of will not publish your personal details or provide them to anyone without permission. Read more about the Immediate Privacy Policy at

The winning entrants will be the first correct entries drawn at random after the closing time. The prize and number of winners will be as shown on the Crossword page. There is no cash alternative and the prize will not be transferable. Immediate Media Company Bristol Limited’s decision is final and no correspondence relating to the competition will be entered into. The winners will be notified by post within 20 days of the close of the competition. The name and county of residence of the winners will be published in the magazine within two months of the closing date. If the winner is unable to be contacted within one month of the closing date, Immediate Media Company Bristol Limited reserves the right to offer the prize to a runner-up.

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