The unclued lights can be sorted into four trios of forenames in a reducing anagram chain: MONICA, NAOMI, MONA (4,31): DECLAN, LANCE, NEAL (12,24,36): SINEAD, DIANE, ENID (33,15,34) and ALISON, SONIA, SIAN (42,13).
First prize E.C. Jones, Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire
Runners-up Charles Barr, Norwich; Mike Brand, Edinburgh
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