2756: 2B or not 2B – solution

The Spectator
issue 04 July 2026

The unclued lights form the first line of Dolor by Theodore Roethke: ‘I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils.’

First prize Geoff Telfer, Baildon, W. Yorks

Runners-up Harry Hyman, London W1; Tim Locke, Ainsdale, Southport

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