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Case 4 · Easy ☕

Pruning Season

The Parish Allotments, Upper Dithering

Mr Tebbit's leek was the biggest in three counties. Someone at the allotments decided it would be his last.

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Our Sleuth (name to come) says: “Everyone stood in a different row and a different column, Mr Tebbit included. Work out where each of them was. The killer is the only one who was in Mr Tebbit’s room.”

The suspects

  • NNanny Pocock
    Ninety-one. Sharper than the rest put together.
  • BMajor Bunbury
    Retired major. Still salutes the postbox.
  • SMiss Saffron
    Runs the wool shop. Knits while she spies.
  • RReverend Ruddle
    New curate. Still lost in his own church.
  • VMr Alfred Tebbit
    The victim: prize leek grower.

5×5 plan · 6 clues · no timer, no pressure.

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